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UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967.
UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967. Photo: PFC Franklin G. Nickerson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Leonard Eugene Easley.

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LEONARD EUGENE EASLEY

Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army

September 11, 1932 – August 14, 1967

Service record

Leonard Eugene Easley, of Brady, Texas, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on August 14, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 24E, Line 109 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 24E · Line 109

Position of Panel 24E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Helicopter Pilot, Utility And Light Cargo Single Rotor (062B)
Unit (as recorded)
282 AVN CO 1 AVN BDE
Born
September 11, 1932
Home of record
Brady, Texas (Mcculloch County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 14, 1967
Age
34
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

15 names on the Wall carry the date August 14, 1967; two of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 24E, Line 109

From Brady

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.