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LESLIE EUGENE MURRAY
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
November 28, 1941 – March 1, 1968
Service recordLeslie Eugene Murray, of Chehalis, Washington, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 1, 1968, in Phong Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 42E, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42E · 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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Boatswain's Mate (BM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MOBILE RIVERINE FORCE TF 117 SQ 11 ASLT DIV 11
- Born
- November 28, 1941
- Home of record
- Chehalis, Washington (Lewis County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 1, 1968
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Phong Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
70 names on the Wall carry the date March 1, 1968; six of them were lost in Phong Dinh Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “MOBILE RIVERINE FORCE TF 117 SQ 11 ASLT DIV 11”, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
He died in Phong Dinh 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.
Also on Panel 42E, Line 22
- JEFFERY MCCLATCHY JRSpecialist Five · March 1, 1968
- WILLIAM ROBERT MCJIMSEYSpecialist Four · March 1, 1968
- DAN LEE NEELYPrivate First Class · March 1, 1968
- GARY LEE OLIVERPrivate First Class · March 1, 1968
From Chehalis
- HARRY D LUNDPrivate First Class · November 5, 1966
- ALLEN HENRY MARINSICSpecialist Four · November 24, 1967
- LARRY JOHN WALTERMANPrivate First Class · February 29, 1968
- JOHN MICHAEL HOGUESpecialist Four · July 23, 1968
- RONALD DEAN DESKINSSpecialist Four · April 3, 1969
- JOHN ROGER POWERSSergeant · April 25, 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.