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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Leslie Elroy Walker.

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LESLIE ELROY WALKER

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

February 17, 1948 – July 28, 1969

Service record

Leslie Elroy Walker, of Lapoint, Utah, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 28, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 20W · Line 67

Position of Panel 20W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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)
1 INF DIV
Born
February 17, 1948
Home of record
Lapoint, Utah (Uintah County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 28, 1969
Age
21
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

41 names on the Wall carry the date July 28, 1969; five of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 42 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 20W, Line 67

Same unit, same day

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.