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LEONARD ALLEN MONNETT
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
July 5, 1949 – February 19, 1971
Service recordLeonard Allen Monnett, of Cumberland, Maryland, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on February 19, 1971, in Laos, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 5W, Line 121 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5W · Line 121
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- July 5, 1949
- Home of record
- Cumberland, Maryland (Allegany County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 19, 1971
- Age
- 21
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date February 19, 1971. In February 1971, 387 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 23 of its members that month.
He died in Laos while Operation Lam Son 719 was under way. In Lam Son 719 (February–March 1971), South Vietnamese troops drove into Laos to cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail, carried and supported by U.S. helicopters and aircraft; more than 100 U.S. helicopters were lost.
Also on Panel 5W, Line 121
- CLIFFORD WAYNE MARSHALLCorporal · February 19, 1971
- CHARLES TONEY MATTHEWSSergeant · February 19, 1971
- WADE HAMPTON ROLLINSSergeant · February 19, 1971
- LYLE ELTON SMITHSergeant · February 19, 1971
Same unit, same day
- FRANCISCO NEVARES VALDEZPrivate First Class · Panel 5W, Line 122
From Cumberland
- FREDERICK NORMAN BAKERSpecialist Four · June 12, 1965
- WELLINGTON MARTIN DONAHUEPrivate First Class · November 6, 1966
- CHARLES E ARONHALT JRFirst Lieutenant · May 18, 1967
- THOMAS JOHN MCMAHONPrivate First Class · September 10, 1967
- JOHN THOMAS WERTMANLance Corporal · October 5, 1967
- JOHN DERWOOD SAVILLE JRSpecialist Four · October 8, 1967
- JOSEPH PATRICK ROWLEYSpecialist Four · October 8, 1967
- ROGER DALE WILFONGStaff Sergeant · October 27, 1967
- CHARLES EDWARD GENTRYPrivate First Class · October 29, 1967
- THOMAS JACOB TORRINGTONLance Corporal · January 31, 1968
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.