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LEROY HUNTER
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
July 12, 1941 – May 6, 1970
Service recordLeroy Hunter, of Orangeburg, South Carolina, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 6, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 11W, Line 113 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 11W · Line 113
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
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 5 INF DIV MECH
- Born
- July 12, 1941
- Home of record
- Orangeburg, South Carolina (Orangeburg County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 6, 1970
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
59 names on the Wall carry the date May 6, 1970; 12 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “5 INF DIV MECH”, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 11W, Line 113
- TOMMY IVAN HINDMANCorporal · May 6, 1970
- JAMES DONNIE HOWELance Corporal · May 6, 1970
- JAMES DALE JENNINGSSergeant · May 6, 1970
- MICHAEL ARTHUR JOHNSONSergeant · May 6, 1970
Same unit, same day
- MICHAEL ARTHUR JOHNSONSergeant · Panel 11W, Line 113
From Orangeburg
- ANDERSON HAROLD KEYPrivate First Class · January 13, 1966
- FREDDIE LEE ROBINSONSpecialist Four · May 16, 1967
- JAMES WALTER SANFORDPrivate First Class · June 22, 1967
- ROBERT PENDARVISSpecialist Four · June 29, 1967
- JOHN WILLIE LUCASSpecialist Four · November 24, 1967
- EDWARD LOUIS WILLIAMSONPrivate First Class · November 30, 1967
- THOMAS GRANTPlatoon Sergeant · December 8, 1967
- HUGH GREY WILLARDSergeant · December 23, 1967
- RICHARD WORRELL KAPP JRSecond Lieutenant · March 1, 1968
- DOUGLAS MONROE BACOTCorporal · March 24, 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.