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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Donald Frederick Leuthold.

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DONALD FREDERICK LEUTHOLD

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

June 26, 1934 – June 5, 1966

Service record

Donald Frederick Leuthold, of Bolckow, Missouri, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 5, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 8E · Line 11

Position of Panel 8E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant First Class (SFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Petroleum Storage Specialist (56C)
Born
June 26, 1934
Home of record
Bolckow, Missouri (Andrew County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 5, 1966
Age
31
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

20 names on the Wall carry the date June 5, 1966. In June 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 8E, Line 11

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.