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LEON THORNTON
Sergeant · U.S. Army
November 11, 1946 – May 18, 1967
Service recordLeon Thornton, of Oxford, North Carolina, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 18, 1967, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 37 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20E · Line 37
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- November 11, 1946
- Home of record
- Oxford, North Carolina (Granville County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 18, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
94 names on the Wall carry the date May 18, 1967; he was the only one lost in Định Tường Province that day. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 64 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 20E, Line 37
- CALVIN LEROY TAYLORPrivate First Class · May 18, 1967
- JIMMIE LEE THOMASPrivate First Class · May 18, 1967
- ROBERT JOHN THOMASPrivate First Class · May 18, 1967
- LELAND HERBERT THOMPSONSergeant · May 18, 1967
Same unit, same day
- FLORENTINO CIPRIAN BARRONCorporal · Panel 20E, Line 20
- ROY DUKE CHITWOODStaff Sergeant · Panel 20E, Line 22
- COIL EDMOND JRCorporal · Panel 20E, Line 25
- WILLIAM CARL FREUNDCorporal · Panel 20E, Line 26
- WILLIE ROGER GRIFFITHSpecialist Four · Panel 20E, Line 28
- JOHN WAYNE HUDGENSSpecialist Four · Panel 20E, Line 29
- STANLEY MICHAEL JAMROZYSpecialist Four · Panel 20E, Line 29
- PHILIP JOHN OLOFSONPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 33
- ALVIN RICHARD SPIDERPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 36
- CALVIN LEROY TAYLORPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 37
- OLIVER ARGYLE WARESergeant First Class · Panel 20E, Line 38
From Oxford
- JESSE L BRANDONSpecialist Four · March 1, 1967
- HUBERT ROYSTER JRSpecialist Four · January 7, 1968
- NORMAN EARL ROSE IIICorporal · February 7, 1968
- LONEY EVANS JRCorporal · October 5, 1968
- MELVIN GREEN JRSergeant First Class · May 12, 1969
- WILLIAM GARY NELMS JRPrivate First Class · August 29, 1969
- AMBROSE H BROOKS JRSpecialist Four · September 8, 1969
- EUGENE PAUL GEEStaff Sergeant · April 5, 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.