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LUTHER LEE ROSE
Chief Master Sergeant · U.S. Air Force
August 7, 1935 – June 3, 1966
Service recordLuther Lee Rose, of Howe, Texas, served as a Chief Master Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. He was lost on June 3, 1966, in Laos, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 8E · Line 2
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Chief Master Sergeant (CMSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 ACS
- Born
- August 7, 1935
- Home of record
- Howe, Texas (Grayson County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- June 3, 1966
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date June 3, 1966. In June 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “4 ACS”, his unit in the record, lost 5 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.
Also on Panel 8E, Line 2
- DEBROW DOZIERPrivate First Class · June 3, 1966
- JOHN OTIS FINNICUMStaff Sergeant · June 3, 1966
- HEZEKIAH GEORGEPrivate First Class · June 3, 1966
- JERRY WILSON HARMONSpecialist Four · June 3, 1966
Same unit, same day
- THEODORE EUGENE KRYSZAKColonel · Panel 8E, Line 3
- HAROLD EUGENE MULLINSChief Master Sergeant · Panel 8E, Line 4
- HARDING EUGENE SMITH SRColonel · Panel 8E, Line 5
- ERVIN WARRENChief Master Sergeant · Panel 8E, Line 5
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.