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LEONARD ELZY EULITT
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 15, 1943 – February 9, 1968
Service recordLeonard Elzy Eulitt, of Miami, Oklahoma, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 9, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 38E, Line 49 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38E · Line 49
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- December 15, 1943
- Home of record
- Miami, Oklahoma (Ottawa County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 9, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
107 names on the Wall carry the date February 9, 1968; 21 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 168 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 38E, Line 49
- CECIL WAYNE EPPSPrivate First Class · February 9, 1968
- WILLIAM NEIL FLINTStaff Sergeant · February 9, 1968
- JOHN CARR GLESENKAMPPrivate First Class · February 9, 1968
- WILLIAM JACOB GOLDBERGPrivate First Class · February 9, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT JOHN ALLENSpecialist Four · Panel 38E, Line 42
- JOHN CARR GLESENKAMPPrivate First Class · Panel 38E, Line 49
- DAVID ERNEST LITTLETONCorporal · Panel 38E, Line 55
From Miami
- DREW DOUGLAS SHIPLEYSergeant · December 10, 1967
- THOMAS DALE ROBINSONPrivate First Class · December 22, 1967
- JAMES TERRY RANSTEADSecond Lieutenant · January 22, 1968
- GARY BRUCE MIDKIFFSergeant · February 4, 1968
- DONALD LEE RANKINSCorporal · June 12, 1968
- RONALD LLOYD SANDERSSpecialist Five · February 23, 1969
- LONNIE EUGENE DUMASSergeant · December 29, 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.