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LEON DAVID WILLARD
Private First Class · U.S. Army
April 13, 1948 – August 13, 1968
Service recordLeon David Willard, of Christiansburg, Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 13, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 48W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48W · Line 9
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- April 13, 1948
- Home of record
- Christiansburg, Virginia (Montgomery County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 13, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date August 13, 1968; seven of them were lost in Long An Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 134 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 48W, Line 9
- EDMOND RAY TOLERPrivate First Class · August 13, 1968
- DARRELL LYNN TRUMBLELance Corporal · August 13, 1968
- ALLEN LEA WARDPrivate First Class · August 13, 1968
- JAMES A WILLIAMSStaff Sergeant · August 13, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES ARNOLD LISENBYCorporal · Panel 48W, Line 7
From Christiansburg
- CHARLIE MACK GILMERPrivate First Class · May 23, 1967
- JIMMY HARRISON MCCLUNGSpecialist Five · April 15, 1970
- HENRY THOMAS COXCaptain · August 13, 1970
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.