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ALEX LEROY BURGESS
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
March 31, 1947 – February 19, 1968
Service recordAlex Leroy Burgess, of New York, New York, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 19, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 18
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
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Engineer Equipment Mechanic (1341)
- Born
- March 31, 1947
- Home of record
- New York, New York (Kings County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 19, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
93 names on the Wall carry the date February 19, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 40E, Line 18
- ROBERT JAN BRIDGES JRPetty Officer Second Class · February 19, 1968
- ASHLAND FREDERICK BURCHWELLFirst Lieutenant · February 19, 1968
- STEPHEN COHANWarrant Officer 1 · February 19, 1968
- TIMOTHY LYNN COLLIERSpecialist Four · February 19, 1968
From New York
- WALTER R MCCARTHY JRCaptain · June 16, 1962
- JOHN HOWARD MCCLEANCaptain · August 16, 1963
- DONALD ALLAN MOLLICONEFirst Lieutenant · December 20, 1963
- VINCENT JOSEPH HICKMANCaptain · January 14, 1964
- MARTIN STOCKFEDERPrivate First Class · July 15, 1964
- ROBERT GEORGE ARMSTRONGFirst Lieutenant · October 24, 1964
- DOMINICK SANSONESergeant First Class · December 10, 1964
- DONALD GILBERT COOKColonel · December 31, 1964
- TERENCE MEREDITH MURPHYLieutenant (junior grade) · April 9, 1965
- ROBERT CARL WISTRANDColonel · May 9, 1965
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.