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LEON SHIRLEY MADDEN
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
December 14, 1934 – June 27, 1969
Service recordLeon Shirley Madden, of Clinton, South Carolina, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 27, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21W · Line 24
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Cannoneer (0811)
- Born
- December 14, 1934
- Home of record
- Clinton, South Carolina (Laurens County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 27, 1969
- Age
- 34
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date June 27, 1969; six of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 21W, Line 24
- RONNIE LAWSONCorporal · June 27, 1969
- PHILIP MASTRAMICOSergeant · June 27, 1969
- MICHAEL GIOVANNI MENNONEPrivate First Class · June 27, 1969
- MARVIN RAY MILLERCorporal · June 27, 1969
From Clinton
- JOHN WALTER TEAGUEPrivate First Class · May 17, 1966
- ROY JAMES BLACKWELL JRSpecialist Four · November 19, 1967
- REGINALD ROCKEFEL JENKINSPrivate First Class · May 29, 1968
- ROBERT EARL KINGCorporal · July 9, 1969
- JOSEPH ONEIL MCGEEPrivate First Class · September 28, 1970
- JAMES DOUGLAS OWENSSpecialist Four · April 1, 1972
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.