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LESLIE HOWARD LAROCQUE
Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army
March 27, 1948 – November 27, 1968
Service recordLeslie Howard Larocque, of Brookfield, Vermont, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on November 27, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 38W, Line 75 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38W · Line 75
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
- Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Helicopter Pilot, Utility And Light Cargo Single Rotor (062B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 118 AVN CO 145 AVN BN 12 AVN GRP
- Born
- March 27, 1948
- Home of record
- Brookfield, Vermont (Orange County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 27, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
61 names on the Wall carry the date November 27, 1968; 33 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 38W, Line 75
- ERIC DORAN JENKINSPrivate First Class · November 27, 1968
- ANTHONY ERIC JOHNSONCorporal · November 27, 1968
- JOE ALAN JOHNSONSpecialist Four · November 27, 1968
- BOOKER T LOFTON JRPrivate First Class · November 27, 1968
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.