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LEO EARL SEYMOUR
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
May 14, 1942 – July 3, 1967
Service recordLeo Earl Seymour, of Towanda, Pennsylvania, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He was lost on July 3, 1967, in Laos, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 22E, Line 123 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 22E · Line 123
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- May 14, 1942
- Home of record
- Towanda, Pennsylvania (Bradford County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- July 3, 1967
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
15 names on the Wall carry the date July 3, 1967. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 22E, Line 123
- CALVIN BELTONPrivate First Class · July 4, 1967
- KENNETH PAUL BIRELEYPrivate First Class · July 4, 1967
- STEVEN ALAN BROWNPrivate First Class · July 4, 1967
- JAMES HENRY COONEYCorporal · July 4, 1967
From Towanda
- JOHN GARTH TOWNERCorporal · December 26, 1965
- ALDON MACKAY ASHERMAN JRPetty Officer Third Class · May 29, 1966
- GEORGE B PEARSON IIIFirst Lieutenant · September 17, 1966
- MICHAEL THOMAS MAHONEYSpecialist Five · January 29, 1968
- BRIAN STUART KRILLPrivate First Class · July 21, 1968
- ROBERT NORMAN NORRISSpecialist Four · December 19, 1969
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.