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WILLIE JAMES MCLAURIN
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 16, 1943 – October 9, 1970
Service recordWillie James McLaurin, of Picayune, Mississippi, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on October 9, 1970, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 7W, Line 121 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 7W · Line 121
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- May 16, 1943
- Home of record
- Picayune, Mississippi (Pearl River County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 9, 1970
- Age
- 27
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
Seven names on the Wall carry the date October 9, 1970; he was the only one lost in Kien Hoa Province that day. In October 1970, 318 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 7W, Line 121
- WILLIAM E JOHNSTONSergeant · October 9, 1970
- CHARLES ERNEST KOBERLEINSeaman · October 9, 1970
- JACK ARMOND PERRYLance Corporal · October 9, 1970
From Picayune
- KENNETH LEVON HENDRIXSpecialist Four · July 27, 1967
- JIMMY DALE BOUDREAUXPrivate First Class · October 26, 1969
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.