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J B L LEVESQUE
Colonel · U.S. Air Force
April 8, 1921 – March 26, 1969
Service recordJ B L Levesque, of Van Buren, Maine, served as a Colonel in the U.S. Air Force. He died on March 26, 1969, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 47. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 48
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Colonel (COL)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- April 8, 1921
- Home of record
- Van Buren, Maine (Aroostook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 26, 1969
- Age
- 47
- Province
- Khanh Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
71 names on the Wall carry the date March 26, 1969; 12 of them were lost in Khanh Hoa Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 48
- THEODORE E HEINSELMANSpecialist Four · March 26, 1969
- GUY FREDERICK JOHNSONWarrant Officer 1 · March 26, 1969
- FRANCIS J R KINGCorporal · March 26, 1969
- DONALD GEORGE LEPARDColonel · March 26, 1969
From Van Buren
- JOSEPH DAVID FOURNIERPrivate First Class · June 17, 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.