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LESTER EARL DOWNING
Private First Class · U.S. Army
June 26, 1949 – April 29, 1969
Service recordLester Earl Downing, of Roper, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 29, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 77 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26W · Line 77
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- June 26, 1949
- Home of record
- Roper, North Carolina (Washington County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 29, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date April 29, 1969; three of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 57 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 26W, Line 77
- DANIEL EDWARD FECKSpecialist Four · April 29, 1969
- RICHARD JAMES FISHERSpecialist Four · April 29, 1969
- ROBERT MORRIS FLANIGANSpecialist Four · April 29, 1969
- FREDERICK EDWARD FURRPetty Officer Third Class · April 29, 1969
Same unit, same day
- PAUL ANDREW BROUSESergeant · Panel 26W, Line 76
- JAMES WILLIAM CLEARYPrivate First Class · Panel 26W, Line 76
- SIMON DEAN JRSpecialist Four · Panel 26W, Line 76
- DANIEL EDWARD FECKSpecialist Four · Panel 26W, Line 77
- ROBERT MORRIS FLANIGANSpecialist Four · Panel 26W, Line 77
- WALLACE JEROME MOSLEYPrivate First Class · Panel 26W, Line 78
From Roper
- THOMAS WILEY NORMAN JRCaptain · September 13, 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.