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JOEL MILLER LEIGH
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 27, 1945 – December 9, 1968
Service recordJoel Miller Leigh, of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 9, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 75 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 75
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- August 27, 1945
- Home of record
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 9, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date December 9, 1968; he was the only one lost in Quảng Ngãi Province that day. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 17 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 37W, Line 75
- ROBERT FRANCIS HINKSTONPrivate First Class · December 9, 1968
- RICHARD MICHAEL KEEGANPrivate First Class · December 9, 1968
- PETE LOPEZSpecialist Four · December 9, 1968
- TALTON LEE MACKEYSergeant · December 9, 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.