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LEONDA SARTOR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 10, 1945 – November 16, 1968
Service recordLeonda Sartor, of Whitmire, South Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 16, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 75 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39W · Line 75
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- May 10, 1945
- Home of record
- Whitmire, South Carolina (Newberry County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 16, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date November 16, 1968; two of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 76 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 39W, Line 75
- JORGE LUIS NIEVESSpecialist Four · November 16, 1968
- WILLIAM HARRY NOLTEPrivate First Class · November 16, 1968
- GORDON LEE PATTERSONWarrant Officer 1 · November 16, 1968
- GEORGE AUSTIN SCHWALBACHSpecialist Four · November 16, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES MICHAEL YOUNGPrivate First Class · Panel 39W, Line 77
From Whitmire
- JESSE RUTLEDGE BAKERSecond Lieutenant · August 18, 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.