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LEON ALTON PALMER
Sergeant · U.S. Army
April 27, 1945 – August 17, 1968
Service recordLeon Alton Palmer, of Mableton, Georgia, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 17, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 48W, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48W · Line 35
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. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- April 27, 1945
- Home of record
- Mableton, Georgia (Cobb County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 17, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date August 17, 1968; four of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 108 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 48W, Line 35
- WILLIAM ELMO POWELLCaptain · August 17, 1968
- WALTER SEALSSergeant · August 17, 1968
- JOSEPH R STEINER IIISergeant · August 17, 1968
- JOHN CHARLES THOMASPrivate First Class · August 17, 1968
From Mableton
- LONNIE DAVID SPROUSESergeant · September 28, 1966
- ROY M MCWILLIAMSCaptain · January 20, 1967
- KENNETH RAY BLAIRSpecialist Four · August 12, 1968
- DAVID EUGENE THOMASCorporal · February 25, 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.