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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Leonard Arthur Nitzsche.

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LEONARD ARTHUR NITZSCHE

Private First Class · U.S. Army

January 28, 1950 – April 8, 1970

Service record

Leonard Arthur Nitzsche, of Ellisgrove, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 8, 1970, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 12W, Line 108 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 12W · Line 108

Position of Panel 12W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
199 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
January 28, 1950
Home of record
Ellisgrove, Illinois (Randolph County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 8, 1970
Age
20
Province
Bien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

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What was happening

23 names on the Wall carry the date April 8, 1970; he was the only one lost in Bien Hoa Province that day. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 12W, Line 108

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.