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JEROME F LEVASSEUR JR
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
April 29, 1944 – December 19, 1967
Service recordJerome F Levasseur JR, of White Bear Lake, Minnesota, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 19, 1967, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32E · Line 24
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Unit Commander (1193)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- April 29, 1944
- Home of record
- White Bear Lake, Minnesota (Ramsey County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 19, 1967
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date December 19, 1967; three of them were lost in Long An Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 45 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 32E, Line 24
- ROBERT DANIEL KLINESpecialist Four · December 19, 1967
- JAMES MARTIN KLOPMEYERPrivate First Class · December 19, 1967
- JUNIOR EDWARD LOTTCorporal · December 19, 1967
- RAY TAYLORPrivate First Class · December 19, 1967
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES RALPH HOLLANDPrivate First Class · Panel 32E, Line 23
- RAY TAYLORPrivate First Class · Panel 32E, Line 24
- GARY LESLIE NORMANCorporal · Panel 32E, Line 26
From White Bear Lake
- JOHN FRANCIS REILLYLance Corporal · December 29, 1966
- JERROLD PATRICK SMITHPrivate First Class · February 29, 1968
- JERRY NORMAN ELLISPrivate First Class · July 4, 1968
- ALLEN ROBERT MELDAHLPrivate First Class · November 15, 1968
- JAMES FREDERICK UTTERMARKStaff Sergeant · February 23, 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.