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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Leroy Everett.

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LEROY EVERETT

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

December 10, 1942 – December 19, 1967

Service record

Leroy Everett, of Atlantic Beach, Florida, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 19, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 32E · Line 21

Position of Panel 32E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Army
Rank
Sergeant First Class (SFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
December 10, 1942
Home of record
Atlantic Beach, Florida (Duval County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 19, 1967
Age
25
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

48 names on the Wall carry the date December 19, 1967; 19 of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 32E, Line 21

Same unit, same day

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.