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RONALD DEAN LAYTON
First Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps
December 23, 1943 – April 4, 1969
Service recordRonald Dean Layton, of Golden, Colorado, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 4, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 11
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1STLT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Pilot Vma A-4 Qualified (I) (7501)
- Born
- December 23, 1943
- Home of record
- Golden, Colorado (Jefferson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 4, 1969
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date April 4, 1969; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 27W, Line 11
- TERRILL MICHAEL LISLEPrivate First Class · April 4, 1969
- DANN JOSEPH LOBKERSpecialist Four · April 4, 1969
- TEDDY CARL LOFTINSergeant · April 4, 1969
- KENNETH GENE MISNERPrivate First Class · April 4, 1969
From Golden
- MICHAEL CHARLES ODELLPetty Officer Second Class · June 24, 1967
- MICHAEL WALTER WARRENPrivate First Class · February 19, 1968
- THOMAS HANSFORD WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · March 6, 1968
- RAYMOND VINCENT STOLPASergeant · September 5, 1968
- JERRY LEN PHILLIPSStaff Sergeant · November 7, 1968
- MICHAEL GREGORY SCHERFSergeant · June 3, 1969
- NORMAN DOUGLAS PEERYCorporal · April 17, 1970
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.