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LEO CLAUDE HESTER
Lieutenant Commander · U.S. Navy
May 5, 1924 – March 10, 1967
Service recordLeo Claude Hester, of Heber, California, served as a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 10, 1967, in Ninh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, at age 42. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 52 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 52
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. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant Commander (LCDR)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1312)
- Born
- May 5, 1924
- Home of record
- Heber, California (Imperial County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 10, 1967
- Age
- 42
- Province
- Ninh Thuan
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date March 10, 1967; eight of them were lost in Ninh Thuan Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 16E, Line 52
- JOHN HENRY FLYNNSpecialist Four · March 10, 1967
- BERNARD ANTHONY FREYNELance Corporal · March 10, 1967
- EDWARD SENIOR HALLSpecialist Four · March 10, 1967
- BYRON DWAYNE HAMLETTSergeant First Class · March 10, 1967
From Heber
- ROGER ESPINOZA RODRIGUEZPrivate · May 29, 1966
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.