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LEON GEORGE EDWARDS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 3, 1949 – March 12, 1968
Service recordLeon George Edwards, of Detroit, Michigan, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 12, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 25
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- April 3, 1949
- Home of record
- Detroit, Michigan (Wayne County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 12, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date March 12, 1968; three of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 208 of its members that month.
He died in Bien Hoa Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 44E, Line 25
- LENARD COLEMANPrivate First Class · March 12, 1968
- STEPHEN RAE CUNNINGHAMPrivate First Class · March 12, 1968
- LEWIS R G DORSEYPrivate First Class · March 12, 1968
- RICHARD LANCE DUNLAPSpecialist Four · March 12, 1968
Same unit, same day
- BERND BACHLEDAPrivate First Class · Panel 44E, Line 24
- RICHARD LANCE DUNLAPSpecialist Four · Panel 44E, Line 25
- WILLIAM ARTHUR JONESSergeant · Panel 44E, Line 27
- PAUL TEJEDA ARAMBULAPrivate First Class · Panel 44E, Line 28
- CARLOS V TREVINOStaff Sergeant · Panel 44E, Line 31
- FRANCISCO LUIS VALLESergeant First Class · Panel 44E, Line 31
From Detroit
- SAMUEL EUGENE HURDAirman Third Class · January 3, 1964
- LEO BERT ABRAMOSKICaptain · July 28, 1964
- GEORGE PAUL ZUPANCICCorporal · June 26, 1965
- MARSHALL DANIEL HOLMANPrivate First Class · July 9, 1965
- ELIAS BELL JRCorporal · July 13, 1965
- ARTHUR F HAMMARSTROM JRLieutenant Colonel · July 24, 1965
- JAMES THOMAS CLARKPrivate · August 17, 1965
- BRUCE JAMES HENRICHPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- ROBERT TAGLIONESergeant · August 18, 1965
- MERRILL LAGENE LANTRYCorporal · September 2, 1965
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.