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LESTER EUGENE MAYNARD
Private First Class · U.S. Army
October 12, 1947 – February 12, 1968
Service recordLester Eugene Maynard, of Holden, West Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 12, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39E · Line 8
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)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- October 12, 1947
- Home of record
- Holden, West Virginia (Logan County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 12, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date February 12, 1968; he was the only one lost in Long An Province that day. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 42 of its members that month.
He died in Long An 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 39E, Line 8
- FREDERICK GEORGE LOPEZSpecialist Four · February 12, 1968
- GEOVEL LOPEZ-GARCIACorporal · February 12, 1968
- DONNIE JOE MARLARSergeant · February 12, 1968
- ROBERT WALTER MAYSpecialist Four · February 12, 1968
Same unit, same day
- KALEY ALFRED SONNERSpecialist Four · Panel 39E, Line 13
From Holden
- JAMES HARRISON HORTONSpecialist Four · March 11, 1969
- JOHN BOWEN JRSergeant First Class · September 21, 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.