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LEROY JOSEPH YOUNG
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
July 19, 1933 – January 23, 1968
Service recordLeroy Joseph Young, of Thibodaux, Louisiana, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 23, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 19
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Radiology Specialist (91P)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- July 19, 1933
- Home of record
- Thibodaux, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 23, 1968
- Age
- 34
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date January 23, 1968; three of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 169 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 35E, Line 19
- GEORGE MONROE MOORESergeant First Class · January 23, 1968
- CLIFFORD JAMES VOLKE IISergeant · January 23, 1968
- DAVID CHARLES AUGEPrivate First Class · January 24, 1968
- GILBERT AYALA JRPrivate First Class · January 24, 1968
Same unit, same day
- NERY JACINTO BRENESSergeant · Panel 35E, Line 14
- DAVID JOHN KLIPPELSergeant · Panel 35E, Line 16
- GEORGE MONROE MOORESergeant First Class · Panel 35E, Line 19
From Thibodaux
- TONY LARUE TATESpecialist Four · March 11, 1968
- GORDON THOMAS MOLAISONCorporal · May 19, 1968
- ERNEST C WILLIAMS JRPrivate First Class · May 25, 1968
- PHILIP JOSEPH ORGERONPrivate First Class · July 6, 1970
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.