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LEROY PEGROSS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
September 12, 1948 – May 26, 1968
Service recordLeroy Pegross, of Port Arthur, Texas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 26, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 66W, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 66W · Line 11
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- September 12, 1948
- Home of record
- Port Arthur, Texas (Jefferson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 26, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date May 26, 1968; 33 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 66W, Line 11
- THOMAS MURRIN JRPrivate First Class · May 26, 1968
- WILLIAM BRIAN OHALLORANCorporal · May 26, 1968
- RAY LEE PENLAND JRPrivate First Class · May 26, 1968
- LARRY JAMES PIERSONLance Corporal · May 26, 1968
From Port Arthur
- ADAM ERNEST SIMPSON JRFirst Lieutenant · October 3, 1965
- HERBERT JAMES GABRIELPrivate First Class · December 29, 1966
- CLEVELAND KEAL JRPrivate First Class · November 19, 1967
- DANNY RAY NORTHCUTTSpecialist Four · February 2, 1968
- PAUL SCOTTPrivate First Class · March 5, 1968
- RODGER DALE HEBERTPrivate First Class · June 15, 1968
- JOHN DEE POWELL JRLance Corporal · June 30, 1968
- TONY JOHN AYALAPrivate First Class · August 11, 1968
- PETER LOWELL RUSSELLSergeant · August 22, 1968
- GREGORIO TREVINO JRPrivate First Class · December 11, 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.