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LEON TISDALE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 12, 1947 – March 8, 1969
Service recordLeon Tisdale, of Greensboro, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 8, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 30W, Line 82 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30W · Line 82
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- September 12, 1947
- Home of record
- Greensboro, North Carolina (Guilford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 8, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date March 8, 1969; 12 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 71 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 30W, Line 82
- FREDDIE CHARLES POTE JRLance Corporal · March 8, 1969
- EARL EUGENE TAYLORPrivate First Class · March 8, 1969
- DAVID EDWARD THEOBALDPrivate First Class · March 8, 1969
- RALPH DEAN VEALESergeant · March 8, 1969
- GORDON LEE WHEELERStaff Sergeant · March 8, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ALFRED ELI ALVEY JRCorporal · Panel 30W, Line 72
- ROBERT EARL GRANTCorporal · Panel 30W, Line 75
- RANDALL LLOYD HARVEYSergeant First Class · Panel 30W, Line 75
- EARL THOMAS HOAGSpecialist Four · Panel 30W, Line 76
- ROGER HAYDEN HOWESCorporal · Panel 30W, Line 76
- MATTHEW EDWARD MORTON JRPrivate First Class · Panel 30W, Line 79
- JOHN LARRY MOTLEY JRSpecialist Four · Panel 30W, Line 79
- JAMES MICHAEL NORMANPrivate First Class · Panel 30W, Line 79
- ROGER WAYNE SMELSERPrivate First Class · Panel 30W, Line 81
- DAVID EDWARD THEOBALDPrivate First Class · Panel 30W, Line 82
- JACK ELWIN WILLIAMSSpecialist Four · Panel 30W, Line 83
From Greensboro
- GLENN CHARLES DYERFirst Lieutenant · October 26, 1964
- THOMAS MONROE CROWPrivate First Class · August 24, 1965
- ALVIN C SLIGHPrivate First Class · November 6, 1965
- GENTRY GRAHAMSpecialist Four · February 24, 1966
- JAMES HAMPTON EDGESpecialist Four · March 5, 1966
- ROGER WARDELL JENKINSPrivate First Class · April 30, 1966
- RONALD CRAIG LOVETTPrivate First Class · June 12, 1966
- JAMES SHREVE HALLChief Master Sergeant · July 29, 1966
- CHESTER DECATUR FEWELLPrivate First Class · January 9, 1967
- BILLY WAYNE FLYNNSecond Lieutenant · January 23, 1967
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.