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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 James Lars Ledin.

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JAMES LARS LEDIN

Private First Class · U.S. Army

May 31, 1944 – July 15, 1966

Service record

James Lars Ledin, of Mellen, Wisconsin, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 15, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 9E, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 9E · Line 24

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
May 31, 1944
Home of record
Mellen, Wisconsin (Ashland County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 15, 1966
Age
22
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

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30 names on the Wall carry the date July 15, 1966. In July 1966, 562 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 93 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 9E, Line 24

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.