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DAVID RICHARD LEHR
Private · U.S. Army
February 16, 1949 – February 23, 1968
Service recordDavid Richard Lehr, of San Rafael, California, served as a Private in the U.S. Army. He died on February 23, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 76 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 76
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 (PVT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- February 16, 1949
- Home of record
- San Rafael, California (Marin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 23, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date February 23, 1968; 15 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 144 of its members that month.
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 76
- VICTOR GONZALEZ JRPrivate First Class · February 23, 1968
- RODNEY W JOHNSONStaff Sergeant · February 23, 1968
- JACK GALE KRIDERCorporal · February 23, 1968
- DELBERT LOUIS LEASURECorporal · February 23, 1968
From San Rafael
- FRANK DENNIS KORNOVICHLance Corporal · April 27, 1966
- GEORGE ALFRED DOANESpecialist Four · May 31, 1967
- GARY CRAIG PORTPrivate First Class · February 13, 1968
- HERBERT RAYMOND GRANTSergeant First Class · February 23, 1969
- RONALD LAWRENCE STORBOPrivate First Class · June 6, 1969
- THOMAS ANTONE CINCOTTAPrivate First Class · June 28, 1969
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.