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LEON ANDREW HUNT
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Air Force
August 7, 1949 – June 18, 1972
Service recordLeon Andrew Hunt, of Pleasure Ridge Park, Kentucky, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. He died on June 18, 1972, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 1W, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 1W · Line 43
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- August 7, 1949
- Home of record
- Pleasure Ridge Park, Kentucky (Jefferson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 18, 1972
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
14 names on the Wall carry the date June 18, 1972; 12 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In June 1972, 88 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Easter Offensive was under way. On 30 March 1972, North Vietnam launched its largest offensive since 1968, attacking across the DMZ, toward An Lộc and into the Central Highlands. By then few U.S. ground troops remained; American advisers and air power fought alongside the South Vietnamese.
Also on Panel 1W, Line 43
- THOMAS RALPH HAMMANCaptain · June 15, 1972
- RICHARD JOSEPH MEECHANColonel · June 15, 1972
- JOHN JOSEPH CABRALLieutenant · June 16, 1972
- ESEQUIEL MARTINEZ ENCINASMajor · June 17, 1972
From Pleasure Ridge Park
- KENNETH LEN SHUFFITTSpecialist Four · January 12, 1967
- JAMES ELDRIE MILLIGANPrivate First Class · August 15, 1967
- ROBERT EVERETT ASHHospitalman · July 9, 1968
- GARY HOLDEN SMITHLance Corporal · October 9, 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.