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LEROY FLOYD SCHYSKA
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 18, 1949 – December 6, 1967
Service recordLeroy Floyd Schyska, of Moline, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 6, 1967, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31E · Line 54
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- July 18, 1949
- Home of record
- Moline, Illinois (Rock Island County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 6, 1967
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Phuoc Tuy
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
70 names on the Wall carry the date December 6, 1967; he was the only one lost in Phuoc Tuy Province that day. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 9 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 31E, Line 54
- JOHN WOODWARD SOGNIER JRSecond Lieutenant · December 6, 1967
- CLAYTON MARQUI SPAINHOWERPrivate First Class · December 6, 1967
- TERRENCE LEE SUNDSpecialist Four · December 6, 1967
- TYRONE TAYLORLance Corporal · December 6, 1967
From Moline
- DENNIS WILLIAM BROWNSergeant · June 19, 1967
- ROLLEEN C SORIMPrivate First Class · October 13, 1967
- ROGER ELLIS JARVISSergeant First Class · October 16, 1967
- LEROY ALPHUS ROSTPrivate First Class · November 13, 1967
- STEPHEN C MOSELEYSergeant · December 12, 1967
- MICHAEL JAY WARRENFirst Lieutenant · April 25, 1968
- JOHN CHARLES SMITHLance Corporal · May 17, 1968
- RAYMOND ROBERT VARNER JRLance Corporal · June 12, 1968
- RICKY JEROME ALMANZACorporal · September 3, 1968
- BARRY SCOTT WELLSSpecialist Four · September 4, 1968
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.