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LEO JOSEPH HORAN
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
April 20, 1933 – February 18, 1966
Service recordLeo Joseph Horan, of Maynard, Massachusetts, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on February 18, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 5E, Line 47 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5E · Line 47
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Food Service Specialist (94B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- April 20, 1933
- Home of record
- Maynard, Massachusetts (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 18, 1966
- Age
- 32
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date February 18, 1966. In February 1966, 513 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 83 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 5E, Line 47
- CHARLES M HONOUR JRLieutenant Colonel · February 18, 1966
- ELIZABETH ANN JONESSecond Lieutenant · February 18, 1966
- LYELL FRANCIS KINGCaptain · February 18, 1966
- CHRISTOPHER JOSEPH LANTZSpecialist Four · February 18, 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.