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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Leland Dale Zahn.

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LELAND DALE ZAHN

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

May 2, 1929 – April 5, 1967

Service record

Leland Dale Zahn, of Harris, Iowa, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 5, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 109 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 17E · Line 109

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Artillery Scout Observer (0846)
Born
May 2, 1929
Home of record
Harris, Iowa (Osceola County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 5, 1967
Age
37
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

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42 names on the Wall carry the date April 5, 1967; 19 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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From Harris

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.