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LEON MILTON PHILLIPS
Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 31, 1946 – March 9, 1968
Service recordLeon Milton Phillips, of De Pere, Wisconsin, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 9, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 43E, Line 68 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43E · Line 68
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Basic (13A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- May 31, 1946
- Home of record
- De Pere, Wisconsin (Brown County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 9, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date March 9, 1968; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 101 of its members that month.
He died in Định Tường 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 43E, Line 68
- MELVIN RANDOLPH LEAVELLPrivate First Class · March 9, 1968
- PATRICK DALE MORIARTYChief Petty Officer · March 9, 1968
- JOSEPH ESPINO PEREZPrivate First Class · March 9, 1968
- MELTON HOWARD PRESLEYSpecialist Four · March 9, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT JAMES COMSTOCKStaff Sergeant · Panel 43E, Line 66
- JOHN RENFIELD TWOREKPrivate First Class · Panel 44E, Line 1
From De Pere
- LOUIS GEORGE RHOADESCorporal · June 6, 1968
- MICHAEL EDWARD HERMSENSpecialist Four · March 22, 1969
- DAVID GEORGE SMITHWICKSpecialist Four · October 30, 1971
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.