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JESSE LEROY SAMFORD
Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Navy
July 21, 1936 – April 25, 1968
Service recordJesse Leroy Samford, of Port O'connor, Texas, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Navy. He died on April 25, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 52E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 52E · Line 10
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. Navy
- Rank
- Warrant Officer 1 (WO-1)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Cwo (7432)
- Born
- July 21, 1936
- Home of record
- Port O'connor, Texas (Calhoun County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 25, 1968
- Age
- 31
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
53 names on the Wall carry the date April 25, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 52E, Line 10
- ANIBAL ORTIZ-RIVERA JRCorporal · April 25, 1968
- ROBERT DEWAYNE PATTERSONCorporal · April 25, 1968
- WILLIAM RAUBERCorporal · April 25, 1968
- EDWARD CHARLES ROOTCorporal · April 25, 1968
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.