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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Leslie Eugene Rembert.

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LESLIE EUGENE REMBERT

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

February 1, 1945 – March 27, 1970

Service record

Leslie Eugene Rembert, of Gainesville, Florida, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 27, 1970, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 12W, Line 50 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 12W · Line 50

Position of Panel 12W 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
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
February 1, 1945
Home of record
Gainesville, Florida (Alachua County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 27, 1970
Age
25
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

15 names on the Wall carry the date March 27, 1970; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In March 1970, 625 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 12W, Line 50

Same unit, same day

From Gainesville

All 31 names from Gainesville →

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.