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LEROY NORRIS WRIGHT
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
June 4, 1929 – May 2, 1968
Service recordLeroy Norris Wright, of Newark, New Jersey, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 2, 1968, in South Vietnam, at age 38. His name is inscribed on Panel 54E, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 54E · Line 22
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
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- June 4, 1929
- Home of record
- Newark, New Jersey (Essex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 2, 1968
- Age
- 38
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
113 names on the Wall carry the date May 2, 1968. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 54E, Line 22
- PAUL LEONARD YOSTSergeant · May 2, 1968
- PAUL ARNOLD YOUNGMANPrivate First Class · May 2, 1968
- OLIVER ANDERSONSergeant First Class · May 3, 1968
- BILLY WAYNE BRIDGEMANSergeant · May 3, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LAWRENCE JESSE ENGLANDERSergeant First Class · Panel 54E, Line 5
- LLOYD FRANCIS MOUSSEAUStaff Sergeant · Panel 55E, Line 26
From Newark
- KELLY KARL HEINZEStaff Sergeant · August 24, 1965
- LEROY WILLIAMS JRPrivate First Class · October 3, 1965
- RICHARD BURGANSPrivate First Class · October 5, 1965
- SCIP TATESpecialist Four · November 8, 1965
- ROBERT GOINESSergeant · December 5, 1965
- JOHN PRESTON GREENESpecialist Four · December 5, 1965
- WESTOVEL VENABLEPrivate First Class · January 25, 1966
- ROY RANSOM ALLENPrivate First Class · March 21, 1966
- ARNOLD WOODSONSpecialist Four · April 5, 1966
- DONALD EDWIN SIEGWARTHLieutenant (junior grade) · June 17, 1966
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.