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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Leon R Scriber.

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LEON R SCRIBER

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

March 9, 1944 – May 19, 1966

Service record

Leon R Scriber, of Canon City, Colorado, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 19, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 7E, Line 87 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 7E · Line 87

Position of Panel 7E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
March 9, 1944
Home of record
Canon City, Colorado (Fremont County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 19, 1966
Age
22
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

30 names on the Wall carry the date May 19, 1966. In May 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 93 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 7E, Line 87

Same unit, same day

From Canon City

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.