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LESLIE DONALD ROSEKRANS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 19, 1948 – December 3, 1968
Service recordLeslie Donald Rosekrans, of Auburn, Michigan, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 3, 1968, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 35
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 92 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- July 19, 1948
- Home of record
- Auburn, Michigan (Bay County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 3, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Phuoc Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
50 names on the Wall carry the date December 3, 1968; 29 of them were lost in Phuoc Long Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “92 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 35
- ROBERT LYON NORTONFirst Lieutenant · December 3, 1968
- FRED JOHN PAULPrivate First Class · December 3, 1968
- RICHARD DENNIS RANDALLSpecialist Four · December 3, 1968
- HAROLD JACK ROBINSON JRPrivate First Class · December 3, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LARRY LAMONT CUNNINGHAMStaff Sergeant · Panel 37W, Line 30
- DAVID LEE URBANPrivate First Class · Panel 37W, Line 34
From Auburn
- MICHAEL ROMAN KLINSKIPrivate First Class · July 17, 1968
- EARL LEE WILSONStaff Sergeant · March 17, 1969
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.