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LEE D SCURLOCK JR
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
November 10, 1943 – December 21, 1967
Service recordLee D Scurlock JR, of Restful Lake, Ohio, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He was lost on December 21, 1967, in Laos, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 39 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32E · Line 39
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- November 10, 1943
- Home of record
- Restful Lake, Ohio
Casualty
- Date of loss
- December 21, 1967
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date December 21, 1967. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 32E, Line 39
- JAMES MCMURRAY MCLEANCorporal · December 21, 1967
- GLENN LEON MCMASTERPrivate First Class · December 21, 1967
- LES HOWARD PASCHALLSpecialist Four · December 21, 1967
- DONNIE DWIGHT PRESLEYLance Corporal · December 21, 1967
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.