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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Glenn Karl Leino.

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GLENN KARL LEINO

Private First Class · U.S. Army

October 10, 1947 – February 27, 1969

Service record

Glenn Karl Leino, of Baltimore, Maryland, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 27, 1969, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 31W, Line 81 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31W · Line 81

Position of Panel 31W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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 First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Locomotive Repairer (65B)
Unit (as recorded)
615 MP CO 95 MP BN 89 MP GRP
Born
October 10, 1947
Home of record
Baltimore, Maryland (Baltimore (City) County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 27, 1969
Age
21
Province
Bien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

59 names on the Wall carry the date February 27, 1969; four of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 31W, Line 81

From Baltimore

All 419 names from Baltimore →

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.