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LEONARD REZA
Sergeant · U.S. Army
September 30, 1950 – April 22, 1971
Service recordLeonard Reza, of Patterson, California, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 22, 1971, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3W · Line 3
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- September 30, 1950
- Home of record
- Patterson, California (Stanislaus County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 22, 1971
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
Seven names on the Wall carry the date April 22, 1971; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In April 1971, 292 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 57 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 3W, Line 3
- JOHN GUSTAVE SCHWARTZSergeant · April 22, 1971
- TERRY E SCHWARTZSpecialist Five · April 22, 1971
- ROBERT B YOUNGSpecialist Four · April 22, 1971
- MICHAEL LEE BRUMMERSpecialist Five · April 23, 1971
From Patterson
- CHARLES ROBERT MEARSSpecialist Four · June 16, 1967
- DEMETRIO LOMELI HERNANDEZSpecialist Four · October 8, 1967
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.