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LEE BERNARD TATE
Lieutenant Colonel · U.S. Air Force
September 27, 1928 – March 29, 1966
Service recordLee Bernard Tate, of St Louis, Missouri, served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force. He died on March 29, 1966, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6E · Line 61
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Lieutenant Colonel (LTCOL)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- September 27, 1928
- Home of record
- St Louis, Missouri (St Louis (City) County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 29, 1966
- Age
- 37
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
12 names on the Wall carry the date March 29, 1966; three of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In March 1966, 564 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 6E, Line 61
- THOMAS DEAN VINCENTLieutenant · February 25, 1965
- JERALD RILEY TOWATERPrivate First Class · March 29, 1966
- JUAN RAMON TREVINOPrivate First Class · March 29, 1966
- IVAN ALFEROFFSpecialist Four · March 30, 1966
- JAMES MALCOLM ARBUTHNOTSpecialist Four · March 30, 1966
From St Louis
- EDDIE LOUIS SMITHStaff Sergeant · October 4, 1964
- GERALD ROBERT KEENEYSpecialist Five · December 28, 1964
- HAROLD DALE MEYERKORDLieutenant · March 16, 1965
- GEORGE CRAIG SMITHMajor · April 3, 1965
- TERRY WAYNE MILLSSpecialist Four · April 19, 1965
- DONNIE D EZELLStaff Sergeant · April 24, 1965
- RONALD JOHN WARRENStaff Sergeant · May 28, 1965
- DALE LEROY TOOLOOSEWarrant Officer 1 · September 2, 1965
- JOSEPH L TSCHAMBERSPrivate First Class · September 2, 1965
- ANTHONY ROY HARDIESpecialist Four · October 28, 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.