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LEANDER GRIFFIN
Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 3, 1938 – October 23, 1965
Service recordLeander Griffin, of New York, New York, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on October 23, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 132 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2E · Line 132
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- May 3, 1938
- Home of record
- New York, New York (Kings County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 23, 1965
- Age
- 27
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
Six names on the Wall carry the date October 23, 1965. In October 1965, 236 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 2E, Line 132
- JOHN WEGER JRCaptain · October 22, 1965
- EDWARD KEMPPrivate First Class · October 23, 1965
- NORMAN ALEXIUS LEIKAMMajor · October 23, 1965
- RICHARD EUGENE PETERSPrivate First Class · October 23, 1965
From New York
- WALTER R MCCARTHY JRCaptain · June 16, 1962
- JOHN HOWARD MCCLEANCaptain · August 16, 1963
- DONALD ALLAN MOLLICONEFirst Lieutenant · December 20, 1963
- VINCENT JOSEPH HICKMANCaptain · January 14, 1964
- MARTIN STOCKFEDERPrivate First Class · July 15, 1964
- ROBERT GEORGE ARMSTRONGFirst Lieutenant · October 24, 1964
- DOMINICK SANSONESergeant First Class · December 10, 1964
- DONALD GILBERT COOKColonel · December 31, 1964
- TERENCE MEREDITH MURPHYLieutenant (junior grade) · April 9, 1965
- ROBERT CARL WISTRANDColonel · May 9, 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.