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LEON LAVERNE LANINGER
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
November 15, 1939 – June 20, 1969
Service recordLeon Laverne Laninger, of Gillett, Pennsylvania, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 20, 1969, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 98 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 22W · Line 98
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Cannon Crewmember (13B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- November 15, 1939
- Home of record
- Gillett, Pennsylvania (Bradford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 20, 1969
- Age
- 29
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date June 20, 1969; he was the only one lost in Kien Hoa Province that day. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 70 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 22W, Line 98
- GLENN ROBERT JENNINGSPrivate First Class · June 20, 1969
- JIM FRANK JENNINGSSergeant · June 20, 1969
- RICHARD DENNIS JOYSergeant · June 20, 1969
- LOREN HENRY LARSONPrivate First Class · June 20, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JOHN HERRICK ALDRICHSergeant · Panel 22W, Line 95
- TIMOTHY ALLEN SHOBERPrivate First Class · Panel 22W, Line 101
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.