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LEONARD WAYNE ELIE
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
October 16, 1948 – April 5, 1967
Service recordLeonard Wayne Elie, of Alexandria, Louisiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 5, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 103 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 103
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- October 16, 1948
- Home of record
- Alexandria, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 5, 1967
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date April 5, 1967; 19 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 103
- ERNEST BRYAN CUPPSergeant · April 5, 1967
- JIMMIE LOUIS ELLERBEPrivate First Class · April 5, 1967
- RONALD JAMES FITCHPrivate First Class · April 5, 1967
- JERRY WAYNE MANNINGPrivate First Class · April 5, 1967
From Alexandria
- MICHAEL JOSEPH TUNNEYFirst Lieutenant · October 6, 1962
- JOSH PALM JRPrivate First Class · October 5, 1966
- ROBERT SMITH SRSergeant · October 21, 1966
- LAWRENCE EUGENE BESSONPrivate First Class · November 4, 1966
- JIMMY DARWIN GOLMONSergeant · December 20, 1966
- GILL LESTER CARTERAirman · August 17, 1967
- WILLIAM ALAN GILMORELance Corporal · September 7, 1967
- CHARLES WADDELL ROBERTSSergeant · September 21, 1967
- FLOYD CAMILLE LACHNEYSpecialist Four · January 19, 1968
- MICHAEL COTTONPrivate First Class · February 26, 1968
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.