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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Abbie Eugene Leazer.

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ABBIE EUGENE LEAZER

Private First Class · U.S. Army

November 10, 1943 – July 3, 1969

Service record

Abbie Eugene Leazer, of Huntersville, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 3, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21W · Line 54

Position of Panel 21W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Field Artillery Basic (13A)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
November 10, 1943
Home of record
Huntersville, North Carolina (Mecklenburg County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 3, 1969
Age
25
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

42 names on the Wall carry the date July 3, 1969; four of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 52 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 21W, Line 54

Same unit, same day

From Huntersville

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.