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LEON JOSEPH ATTERIDGE JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 6, 1945 – March 13, 1968
Service recordLeon Joseph Atteridge JR, of Slatersville, Rhode Island, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 13, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 33
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- January 6, 1945
- Home of record
- Slatersville, Rhode Island (Providence County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 13, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
57 names on the Wall carry the date March 13, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên 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 Thừa Thiên 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 33
- JOSEPH HENRY BYRNEMajor · March 13, 1968
- GEORGE MANUAL CHACALOSPrivate First Class · March 13, 1968
- GUY FLETCHER COLLINSLieutenant Colonel · March 13, 1968
- WILLIAM DON CRAWFORDSergeant First Class · March 13, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DAVID LEE EDNEYSpecialist Four · Panel 44E, Line 35
- ARNOLD PAUL SARNASpecialist Four · Panel 44E, Line 40
- RUBEN NOAH TACKETTSpecialist Four · Panel 44E, Line 41
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.