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LEONARD MASAYON TADIOS
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
January 9, 1934 – December 11, 1964
Service recordLeonard Masayon Tadios, of Lanai City, Hawaii, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He was lost on December 11, 1964, in An Xugen Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 76 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 1E · Line 76
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- January 9, 1934
- Home of record
- Lanai City, Hawaii (Maui County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- December 11, 1964
- Province
- An Xugen
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- First reported
- Captured / prisoner of war
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
Four names on the Wall carry the date December 11, 1964; he was the only one lost in An Xugen Province that day. In December 1964, 36 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 1E, Line 76
- DOMINICK SANSONESergeant First Class · December 10, 1964
- WOODROW WILSON VADENMajor · December 10, 1964
- WAYNE HUFFMAN KIDDCaptain · December 11, 1964
- JOHN EDWARD KINGCaptain · December 11, 1964
Same unit, same day
- WAYNE HUFFMAN KIDDCaptain · Panel 1E, Line 76
- JOHN EDWARD KINGCaptain · Panel 1E, Line 76
From Lanai City
- GILBERT BRIAN SUETOSPrivate First Class · April 15, 1966
- DALMACIO P PASCUA JRStaff Sergeant · March 12, 1969
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.