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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Leonidas Raisis.

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LEONIDAS RAISIS

Sergeant · U.S. Army

March 10, 1939 – December 25, 1965

Service record

Leonidas Raisis, of Westboro, Massachusetts, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 25, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 4E · Line 40

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
March 10, 1939
Home of record
Westboro, Massachusetts (Worcester County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 25, 1965
Age
26
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

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What was happening

Four names on the Wall carry the date December 25, 1965. In December 1965, 326 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 77 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 4E, Line 40

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.