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LEON ROY FIELD
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
August 7, 1933 – December 13, 1968
Service recordLeon Roy Field, of Glassboro, New Jersey, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 13, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 15
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- August 7, 1933
- Home of record
- Glassboro, New Jersey (Gloucester County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 13, 1968
- Age
- 35
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date December 13, 1968; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 75 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 15
- THOMAS CHARLES ELDRIDGEPetty Officer Second Class · December 13, 1968
- JOSEPH PETER FANNINGMajor · December 13, 1968
- EARL RICHARD FRAYSergeant · December 13, 1968
- ROBERT RANDY FREGIASpecialist Four · December 13, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CHRISTOPHER ORAN BOLSTERSergeant · Panel 36W, Line 13
- GILBERT STEVENS BELL JRSergeant · Panel 36W, Line 17
- WILLIE JAMES MCCLENDONSpecialist Four · Panel 36W, Line 17
- DAVID WAYNE PIERCEPrivate First Class · Panel 36W, Line 18
- RAYMOND JOHN WESTCorporal · Panel 36W, Line 20
From Glassboro
- RICHARD JOHNSONSpecialist Five · March 4, 1968
- ALLEN WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · June 3, 1968
- DOUGLAS EALEYSergeant · October 19, 1968
- JAMES DAVID HAGELSTEINPrivate First Class · February 14, 1970
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.