Laird enlisted in the Army Reserve Corp on 6/2/1942. He was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant while at Fort Buenning, GA on 9/13/1943. He was stationed in Fort Breckenridge Kentucky until he was shipped over seas in April 1945, arriving in France where he was killed in action on 7/29/1945.

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