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LE ROY CARL RADTKE JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
March 8, 1946 – July 21, 1967
Service recordLe Roy Carl Radtke JR, of Lutz, Florida, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 21, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 103 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23E · Line 103
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- March 8, 1946
- Home of record
- Lutz, Florida (Hillsborough County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 21, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
50 names on the Wall carry the date July 21, 1967; eight of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 23E, Line 103
- WILLIAM EDWARD MURFFLance Corporal · July 21, 1967
- HAROLD RICHARD NIELSENCorporal · July 21, 1967
- WILLIAM ALFRED POLLARDPrivate First Class · July 21, 1967
- JOHN WILSON RIVERSHospitalman · July 21, 1967
From Lutz
- JERRY GORDON WRIGHTPrivate First Class · July 29, 1967
- WILLIAM ELLIS BROWNINGPrivate First Class · August 1, 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.