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RAYMOND ELTON LEIGHTON
Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
September 29, 1940 – March 21, 1966
Service recordRaymond Elton Leighton, of Westbrook, Maine, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 21, 1966, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6E · Line 33
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Unit (as recorded)
- L CO 3 BN 7 MAR
- Born
- September 29, 1940
- Home of record
- Westbrook, Maine (Cumberland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 21, 1966
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date March 21, 1966; 35 of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In March 1966, 564 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “L CO 3 BN 7 MAR”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 6E, Line 33
- NOAH MORRIS KRAFTFirst Lieutenant · March 21, 1966
- STEPHAN JAMES MARTINPrivate First Class · March 21, 1966
- LESTER GEORGE MICHELSStaff Sergeant · March 21, 1966
- JOHN ALBERT MITCHELLSergeant · March 21, 1966
Same unit, same day
- JOHN LOUIS HUNTERSergeant · Panel 6E, Line 32
From Westbrook
- DONALD MYRICK RUSSELLColonel · December 5, 1967
- BENEDICT MAHER DAVANStaff Sergeant · March 17, 1969
- ROBERT JOHN NADEAUStaff Sergeant · November 25, 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.