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CARL ROBERT LEED
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
January 18, 1935 – February 29, 1968
Service recordCarl Robert Leed, of West Fairview, Pennsylvania, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 29, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 42E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42E · Line 6
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Leader (0369)
- Unit (as recorded)
- C CO 1 RECON BN
- Born
- January 18, 1935
- Home of record
- West Fairview, Pennsylvania (Cumberland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 29, 1968
- Age
- 33
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date February 29, 1968; 13 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 42E, Line 6
- CLEVELAND SCOTT HARRISMajor · February 29, 1968
- EARL TIMOTHY JONESPrivate First Class · February 29, 1968
- EDWARD J KAMINSKISergeant First Class · February 29, 1968
- KENNETH CHARLES LOCKWOODSeaman · February 29, 1968
From West Fairview
- GEORGE HENRY STAHL JRPrivate First Class · May 20, 1966
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.