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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Chester Arthur Lederhouse JR.

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CHESTER ARTHUR LEDERHOUSE JR

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

January 19, 1947 – July 13, 1966

Service record

Chester Arthur Lederhouse JR, of Ransomville, New York, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 13, 1966, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 19E, Line 125 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 19E · Line 125

Position of Panel 19E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Born
January 19, 1947
Home of record
Ransomville, New York

Casualty

Date of death
July 13, 1966
Age
19
Added to the Wall
2016

Context · from the records

What was happening

Five names on the Wall carry the date July 13, 1966. In July 1966, 562 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 19E, Line 125

From Ransomville

Source. This name was added to the Wall in 2016, after the 2008 Department of Defense casualty file used for most of this site was compiled. Panel, line and the details above are as listed for this name on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund’s Wall of Faces. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.