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LEO VINCENT SILBERT
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 10, 1946 – January 18, 1967
Service recordLeo Vincent Silbert, of New Hyde Park, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 18, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14E · Line 51
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- December 10, 1946
- Home of record
- New Hyde Park, New York (Nassau County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 18, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date January 18, 1967; 12 of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 79 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương Province while Operation Cedar Falls was under way. Operation Cedar Falls (8–26 January 1967) sent some 30,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops into the “Iron Triangle” northwest of Saigon to destroy Viet Cong base areas and tunnels. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 14E, Line 51
- PATTERSON SCOTT JRPrivate First Class · January 18, 1967
- WILLIAM SHOVERPrivate First Class · January 18, 1967
- CALVIN RAY WILSONPrivate First Class · January 18, 1967
- TIMOTHY E WORKMANSpecialist Five · January 18, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JESUS MAGIN ARCHULETAPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 47
- GARY O BRENNANPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 47
- ROGER SMITH BRYANTPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 47
- LEONARD CLARENCE GRAY JRSecond Lieutenant · Panel 14E, Line 48
- DONALD LEONARD HELTONPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 48
- JERRY DALE HUMPHREYPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 48
- JERRY JOSEPH KOLAR JRPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 49
- JOHN DAVIS MCCARTYSpecialist Four · Panel 14E, Line 49
- RONALD JAMES MCCULLOUGHSergeant · Panel 14E, Line 49
- DENNIS RAY ONEALPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 50
- ROBERT LEE PROVENZANOSpecialist Four · Panel 14E, Line 50
- PATTERSON SCOTT JRPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 51
- CALVIN RAY WILSONPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 51
- TIMOTHY E WORKMANSpecialist Five · Panel 14E, Line 51
From New Hyde Park
- JOHN FRANCIS OGRADYColonel · April 10, 1967
- JOHN JOSEPH FINNEGANPrivate First Class · May 28, 1967
- JOHN DIDOMIZIOPrivate · September 4, 1967
- MICHAEL JOSEPH GALLAGHERSpecialist Four · October 17, 1967
- RICHARD MICHAEL PROSCIAPrivate First Class · December 15, 1967
- JOHN JOSEPH BURKECaptain · February 5, 1968
- JOHN MICHAEL RUPERTSpecialist Four · February 12, 1968
- ROBERT JOSEPH PALENSCARPrivate First Class · May 19, 1968
- RALPH WILLIAM MANNERSFirst Lieutenant · August 26, 1968
- JOHN RAYMOND FERRAZZANOCorporal · October 17, 1968
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.