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LEE ALEXANDER CONNERS
Sergeant · U.S. Army
April 26, 1945 – January 14, 1970
Service recordLee Alexander Conners, of Kennedy, New York, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 14, 1970, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 14W, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14W · Line 32
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- April 26, 1945
- Home of record
- Kennedy, New York (Chautauqua County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 14, 1970
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date January 14, 1970; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In January 1970, 529 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 14W, Line 32
- JOSEPH PAUL ANTONELLISpecialist Four · January 14, 1970
- HERMINIO AMELIO BONILLACorporal · January 14, 1970
- ROBERT DALE FARNHAMSergeant · January 14, 1970
- WILLIAM GREGORY LITTLECorporal · January 14, 1970
From Kennedy
- WILLIAM JAMES HILLARD IICorporal · March 15, 1969
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.