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LEONARD WHITLEY KIDD
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
May 17, 1951 – July 27, 1970
Service recordLeonard Whitley Kidd, of Ashburn, Virginia, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on July 27, 1970, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 8W, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 8W · Line 59
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Construction Equipment Operator (62E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
- Born
- May 17, 1951
- Home of record
- Ashburn, Virginia (Loudoun County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 27, 1970
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
15 names on the Wall carry the date July 27, 1970; two of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In July 1970, 495 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 8W, Line 59
- GRADY LOUIS EILANDSergeant · July 27, 1970
- JAMES WILLIAM HUDSONSergeant · July 27, 1970
- MICHAEL ALAN LAUCHMANSpecialist Four · July 27, 1970
- LARRY JAMES MCDOWELLCorporal · July 27, 1970
Same unit, same day
- JAMES WILLIAM HUDSONSergeant · Panel 8W, Line 59
- CHARLES DAVID RIFFESpecialist Five · Panel 8W, Line 60
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.