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LYLE GORDON LEPPKE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 12, 1946 – August 5, 1969
Service recordLyle Gordon Leppke, of Minneota, Minnesota, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 5, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 98 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · Line 98
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- May 12, 1946
- Home of record
- Minneota, Minnesota (Lyon County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 5, 1969
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date August 5, 1969; six of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 70 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20W, Line 98
- PHILIP V MACKINNEYPrivate First Class · August 1, 1969
- MARTIN JOHN KERBYSergeant · August 5, 1969
- ROBERT LEO KRAFTSpecialist Four · August 5, 1969
- VERLE NORMAN LARSONSpecialist Four · August 5, 1969
- FRANK EDWARD LITCHFIELDFirst Lieutenant · August 5, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT EUGENE JONESSpecialist Four · Panel 20W, Line 97
- ROBERT LEO KRAFTSpecialist Four · Panel 20W, Line 98
- VERLE NORMAN LARSONSpecialist Four · Panel 20W, Line 98
- FRANK EDWARD LITCHFIELDFirst Lieutenant · Panel 20W, Line 98
- DAVID MARTIN SWANPrivate First Class · Panel 20W, Line 99
From Minneota
- DONALD IGNATIUS CULSHAWSpecialist Four · December 22, 1968
- THOMAS JAMES BRADLEYSergeant · June 19, 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.