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LEE G TOLLEY
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 7, 1947 – February 22, 1968
Service recordLee G Tolley, of Arlington, Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 22, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 69
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- March 7, 1947
- Home of record
- Arlington, Virginia (Arlington County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 22, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
76 names on the Wall carry the date February 22, 1968; 16 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 168 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 40E, Line 69
- HECTOR LUIS SEMIDEYPrivate First Class · February 22, 1968
- CARY CARSON SMITHFirst Lieutenant · February 22, 1968
- JERRY WALTON SMITHPrivate First Class · February 22, 1968
- BRUCE ALAN SWAIMPrivate First Class · February 22, 1968
Same unit, same day
- WARREN RICHARD BROWNSpecialist Four · Panel 40E, Line 58
- RICHARD AGUIRRE CONTRERASPrivate First Class · Panel 40E, Line 60
- RANDALL ALLEN HENZEPrivate First Class · Panel 40E, Line 63
- WILLIE JACKSONPrivate First Class · Panel 40E, Line 64
- JOHN ROBERT LAWRENCEFirst Lieutenant · Panel 40E, Line 65
- LARRY DEAN POWELLSpecialist Four · Panel 40E, Line 67
From Arlington
- DAVID WEBSTERMajor · March 10, 1963
- THOMAS THEODORE MCLARNONSergeant · May 29, 1965
- JOHN THOMAS STICHERWarrant Officer 1 · December 6, 1965
- JOHN HENRY FULCHERPrivate First Class · September 24, 1966
- KEITH ALLEN CAMPBELLSpecialist Four · February 8, 1967
- JAMES DOHERTY HUNTERFirst Lieutenant · February 21, 1967
- GEORGE ELLIS BYRDPrivate First Class · February 26, 1967
- ROBERT HENRY OSBORN JONESAirman First Class · February 27, 1967
- LEROY PRESTON BOHRERMajor · March 9, 1967
- ANDREW THOMAS CASTELDASpecialist Four · March 12, 1967
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.