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LESTER LEE MEADOWS JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 7, 1947 – September 29, 1967
Service recordLester Lee Meadows JR, of Huntington, West Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 29, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27E · Line 29
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- December 7, 1947
- Home of record
- Huntington, West Virginia (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 29, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
35 names on the Wall carry the date September 29, 1967. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27E, Line 29
- RONALD JOSEPH HUMMSpecialist Four · September 29, 1967
- JOSEPH JOHN KELLER JRCorporal · September 29, 1967
- ROGER VIRGIL KELLEYLance Corporal · September 29, 1967
- MICHAEL JOSEPH KOLLERSpecialist Four · September 29, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JOHNNY BOYD ALBRITTONSergeant · Panel 27E, Line 26
From Huntington
- GERALD BRUCE ROSESpecialist Five · February 22, 1965
- GLENN MCARTHUR LANEPetty Officer Second Class · October 26, 1965
- JACKIE L WAYMIRESergeant · January 9, 1967
- EMORY LE ROY TAYLORPrivate First Class · April 17, 1967
- RONALD KEITH NEALPetty Officer Third Class · April 21, 1967
- JOHNNY MALCOLM JOHNSONPrivate First Class · May 21, 1967
- JAMES RICHARD EMMERTSergeant · June 22, 1967
- WILLIAM EDWARD CRAFTSergeant First Class · September 25, 1967
- HARON LEE BROWN IIFirst Lieutenant · December 14, 1967
- MICHAEL EUGENE STEPHENSPetty Officer Third Class · January 24, 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.