GREEN BERETS Laney, Billy Ray

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Laney ​

• FORENAME

Billy Ray ​

• UNIT

5 SF Group (MACV- SOG - CCN) (FOB-1)​

• RANK

Sergeant First Class ​

• NUMBER

416508177​

• DATE OF DEATH

3rd June 1967 ​

• AGE

27 ​

• GRAVESITE

Arlington National Cemetery,Virginia Section 60 Site 7922​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

from Birmingham,Alabama​

home city also given as Green Acres City,Florida​

born 21.8.1939 Blanche,Alabama​

son of George Jefferson Davis and Martha Edna (nee Presley) Laney​

husband of Oliver Charline (nee Bates) Laney (1942-2006) (married 1958) (3 children)​

US Navy October 1956 - 2.8.1960​

entered service Army 3.8.1960 ​

MIA when USMC CH-46 helicopter shot down Laos (31k south of Lang Vei)​

declared dead 20.3.1978 as Master Sergeant​

National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific,Honolulu,Hawaii Courts of the Missing​

remains repatriated 16.2.1999 ​

remains identified 14.8.2000​

buried in communal grave in Arlington National cemetery​

also reported burial at New Home Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery,Moreland,Winston County,Alabama​

Vietnam Veterans Memorial,Washington,DC Panel 21E Line 48​

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