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LEROY BUFORD
Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 6, 1940 – April 18, 1967
Service recordLeroy Buford, of Atoka, Tennessee, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 18, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 44 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 44
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- August 6, 1940
- Home of record
- Atoka, Tennessee (Tipton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 18, 1967
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
13 names on the Wall carry the date April 18, 1967; two of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 31 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 44
- THOMAS WESTON JRPrivate First Class · April 17, 1967
- JOSEPH MANUEL ARAGONSergeant First Class · April 18, 1967
- RONALD DWIGHT BRUCESpecialist Four · April 18, 1967
- CHARLES CURTIS CLENDENENSpecialist Four · April 18, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JOSEPH MANUEL ARAGONSergeant First Class · Panel 18E, Line 44
From Atoka
- LONNIE ONEAL HILLSpecialist Four · August 29, 1967
- ALFONSO AUGUSTUS WEBBLance Corporal · April 26, 1969
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.