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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Lee Edward Rosenwasser.

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LEE EDWARD ROSENWASSER

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

January 28, 1947 – January 12, 1966

Service record

Lee Edward Rosenwasser, of North Miami Beach, Florida, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 12, 1966, offshore, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 4E · Line 67

Position of Panel 4E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
Born
January 28, 1947
Home of record
North Miami Beach, Florida (Dade County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 12, 1966
Age
18
Province
Offshore
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

11 names on the Wall carry the date January 12, 1966. In January 1966, 401 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 4E, Line 67

From North Miami Beach

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.