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LELAND DOUGLAS WELCH
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 23, 1948 – June 7, 1968
Service recordLeland Douglas Welch, of Belview, Minnesota, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 7, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 59W, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 59W · Line 29
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- August 23, 1948
- Home of record
- Belview, Minnesota (Redwood County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 7, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
59 names on the Wall carry the date June 7, 1968; four of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 59W, Line 29
- MITCHELL ALLEN WENTZPetty Officer Second Class · June 7, 1968
- ERNEST LAMAR WESLEYPrivate First Class · June 7, 1968
- ROBERT JAY WESTRATESergeant · June 7, 1968
- LOY NEAL WHALEYPrivate First Class · June 7, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CONEY ELLISPrivate First Class · Panel 59W, Line 22
- ROBERT JOHN KUCWAYPrivate First Class · Panel 59W, Line 25
From Belview
- BRADLEY THOMAS MACEPrivate First Class · March 3, 1970
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.