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LEO PORTER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 27, 1947 – August 18, 1967
Service recordLeo Porter, of Bastrop, Louisiana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 18, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25E · Line 14
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- D CO 227 AVN BN 11 AVN GRP 1 CAV DIV
- Born
- December 27, 1947
- Home of record
- Bastrop, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 18, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date August 18, 1967. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 25E, Line 14
- ROBERT AMMON SNAVELYPrivate First Class · August 18, 1967
- DAVID PAUL WERNETPrivate First Class · August 18, 1967
- LARRY GENE CAMPBELLCorporal · August 19, 1967
- WILLIAM EDGAR COMPTON IIILance Corporal · August 19, 1967
From Bastrop
- HAROLD WAYNE LOWTHERSpecialist Five · April 5, 1966
- CHARLES CLIFTON HENDERSONSpecialist Four · August 25, 1967
- JERRY LEE NATIONSSecond Lieutenant · December 19, 1967
- JERRY RANKIN HALEYFirst Lieutenant · February 3, 1968
- ROY LEE NATIONSPrivate First Class · May 12, 1969
- LOUIS EARL FENCEROYPrivate First Class · May 21, 1969
- DONNIE LUSTER KINGPrivate First Class · July 3, 1969
- JESSE UPTIGROVEStaff Sergeant · July 8, 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.