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LESLIE BERKLEY SAYRE
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
November 28, 1944 – March 20, 1968
Service recordLeslie Berkley Sayre, of Fairborn, Ohio, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 20, 1968, in Chau Doc Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 45E, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45E · Line 43
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Fixed Wing Aviation Unit Commander (1980)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- November 28, 1944
- Home of record
- Fairborn, Ohio (Greene County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 20, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Chau Doc
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
41 names on the Wall carry the date March 20, 1968; he was the only one lost in Chau Doc Province that day. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 29 of its members that month.
He died in Chau Doc Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 45E, Line 43
- EUGENE SMALLPrivate · March 20, 1968
- FRANKLIN ELLIOTT SPEIGHTSecond Lieutenant · March 20, 1968
- ORIS CAMILLUS TAYLORSergeant · March 20, 1968
- WILLIE SANDFORD TILLMONPrivate First Class · March 20, 1968
From Fairborn
- EDWARD API LOVELLStaff Sergeant · December 28, 1965
- JULIAN A FINCHER JRWarrant Officer 1 · January 23, 1967
- RONALD MICHAEL OBENOURSpecialist Four · March 6, 1968
- ARLIE TERRYStaff Sergeant · March 6, 1968
- EDWARD LEE PERRYSpecialist Four · April 30, 1968
- HAROLD LECURNE ZUG JRSergeant · August 27, 1968
- LEONARD RAY MARTINSergeant · December 9, 1968
- THOMAS WILLIAM LANDRUMSpecialist Four · November 12, 1969
- CHARLES EDWARD THOMAS JRSpecialist Four · February 14, 1970
- RONALD DEAN SWINFORDLance Corporal · September 4, 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.