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LEROY FRANK VALDEZ
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 22, 1943 – May 11, 1968
Service recordLeroy Frank Valdez, of Mora, New Mexico, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 11, 1968, in Long Khanh Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 58E, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 58E · Line 25
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- C CO 31 ENG BN USARV
- Born
- May 22, 1943
- Home of record
- Mora, New Mexico (Mora County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 11, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Long Khanh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
54 names on the Wall carry the date May 11, 1968; four of them were lost in Long Khanh Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “C CO 31 ENG BN USARV”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 58E, Line 25
- CHESTER J RADGOWSKI JRPrivate First Class · May 11, 1968
- ROBERT CRAWFORD RANSOM JRSecond Lieutenant · May 11, 1968
- ARCHIE JAMES ROBERTS JRCorporal · May 11, 1968
- GREGORY ALLEN RUSSELLSergeant · May 11, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CRAIG WESLEY MITCHELLSpecialist Four · Panel 58E, Line 24
- EARL WOODSCorporal · Panel 58E, Line 28
From Mora
- GERALD MONROE HUBBARDStaff Sergeant · December 4, 1966
- CHARLES ANTHONY SANCHEZCorporal · June 13, 1971
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.