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LEAMON RAY LADD
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
August 20, 1945 – December 14, 1966
Service recordLeamon Ray Ladd, of Chicago, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 14, 1966, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 45 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13E · Line 45
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
- August 20, 1945
- Home of record
- Chicago, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 14, 1966
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date December 14, 1966; ten of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 13E, Line 45
- EDWIN LEE KOENIGLieutenant Commander · December 14, 1966
- RICHARD LYNN MOWREYLieutenant (junior grade) · December 14, 1966
- MICHAEL THOMAS NEWELLLieutenant · December 14, 1966
- KENNY RYOSUKE SUZUKIPrivate First Class · December 14, 1966
From Chicago
- MELVIN LESTER WATERSPrivate · February 10, 1965
- WILLIAM RALPH FUHRMANPetty Officer Third Class · April 23, 1965
- RAYMOND LEON HORNCorporal · May 1, 1965
- ARTHUR C JEPSON JRCaptain · May 16, 1965
- DONALD CLAY DEDMONStaff Sergeant · June 10, 1965
- ROGER PELIKANLance Corporal · July 17, 1965
- HARRY COHENTechnical Sergeant · July 19, 1969
- CURTIS LOCKHARTPrivate First Class · July 30, 1965
- EDWARD KOPECPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- JAMES LEO WHITELance Corporal · August 19, 1965
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.