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LEON ARTHUR WANGERIN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 27, 1946 – May 20, 1967
Service recordLeon Arthur Wangerin, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 20, 1967, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20E · Line 69
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- August 27, 1946
- Home of record
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Milwaukee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 20, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
91 names on the Wall carry the date May 20, 1967; 16 of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 117 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20E, Line 69
- RONALD DEAN STARRPrivate First Class · May 20, 1967
- TERRENCE COLIN SULLIVANPrivate First Class · May 20, 1967
- ELISEO ESPINOZA TARINPrivate First Class · May 20, 1967
- GEORGE MICHAEL TAYLORSpecialist Four · May 20, 1967
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT DAVID ALEXANDERPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 52
- JOHN ATKINSSpecialist Four · Panel 20E, Line 53
- LESLIE ALLEN BELLRICHARDPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 54
- RAYMOND JOHN BOROWSKISergeant · Panel 20E, Line 54
- LEE BJARNE BUANPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 55
- FREDERICK ANDREW BUZAFirst Lieutenant · Panel 20E, Line 56
- MARIO ONTIVERO DELEONSpecialist Four · Panel 20E, Line 56
- VERNON LEROY LEINOPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 62
- FRANKIE ZOLY MOLNARStaff Sergeant · Panel 20E, Line 64
- RONALD JAMES MOORESpecialist Four · Panel 20E, Line 64
- GARY WAYNE RITCHEYPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 67
- ALLEN TEBBS ROGERS JRSecond Lieutenant · Panel 20E, Line 67
- LONNIE LEO SMITHStaff Sergeant · Panel 20E, Line 68
- ELISEO ESPINOZA TARINPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 69
- EUGENE AMBROSE WARDPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 70
From Milwaukee
- TOM JOSEPH CRESSLieutenant · January 6, 1961
- ROBERT BURGERTSergeant · February 13, 1963
- PETER MATTHEW FEIERABENDPrivate First Class · February 16, 1964
- THADDEUS ZAJACSpecialist Four · September 27, 1965
- JAMES CALVIN WARDPrivate First Class · October 11, 1965
- TIMOTHY HOLTON JOHNSONPrivate First Class · November 6, 1965
- RICHARD WILLIAM SCHWENDLERCorporal · November 16, 1965
- MICHAEL ALFRED GRUBERPrivate First Class · December 5, 1965
- RICHARD JOSEPH BRUNKEPrivate First Class · December 14, 1965
- MICHAEL PETER MORANPrivate First Class · January 9, 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.