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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 Gideon Maquiling.

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LEONARD GIDEON MAQUILING

Chief Warrant Officer 2 · U.S. Army

October 13, 1948 – October 26, 1971

Service record

Leonard Gideon Maquiling, of Honolulu, Hawaii, served as a Chief Warrant Officer 2 in the U.S. Army. He died on October 26, 1971, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 52 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 2W · Line 52

Position of Panel 2W 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
Chief Warrant Officer 2 (CW2)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Cargo Helicopter Pilot (100C)
Unit (as recorded)
1 AVN BDE
Born
October 13, 1948
Home of record
Honolulu, Hawaii (Honolulu County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 26, 1971
Age
23
Province
Khanh Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

12 names on the Wall carry the date October 26, 1971; four of them were lost in Khanh Hoa Province. In October 1971, 132 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 2W, Line 52

Same unit, same day

From Honolulu

All 120 names from Honolulu →

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.