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LEONARD DODSON
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
May 5, 1948 – March 18, 1969
Service recordLeonard Dodson, of New York, New York, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on March 18, 1969, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29W · Line 67
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- May 5, 1948
- Home of record
- New York, New York (Kings County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 18, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
47 names on the Wall carry the date March 18, 1969; three of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 121 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 29W, Line 67
- LARRY KENT DAVISSpecialist Four · March 18, 1969
- EDWARD CARL DEBOWSpecialist Five · March 18, 1969
- THOMAS MITCHELL DEITZStaff Sergeant · March 18, 1969
- JOE BUTLER EASTERNPrivate First Class · March 18, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JOHN ROGER THIELENSergeant · Panel 29W, Line 74
From New York
- WALTER R MCCARTHY JRCaptain · June 16, 1962
- JOHN HOWARD MCCLEANCaptain · August 16, 1963
- DONALD ALLAN MOLLICONEFirst Lieutenant · December 20, 1963
- VINCENT JOSEPH HICKMANCaptain · January 14, 1964
- MARTIN STOCKFEDERPrivate First Class · July 15, 1964
- ROBERT GEORGE ARMSTRONGFirst Lieutenant · October 24, 1964
- DOMINICK SANSONESergeant First Class · December 10, 1964
- DONALD GILBERT COOKColonel · December 31, 1964
- TERENCE MEREDITH MURPHYLieutenant (junior grade) · April 9, 1965
- ROBERT CARL WISTRANDColonel · May 9, 1965
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.