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RICHARD TYRONE LEAVELL
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
October 16, 1947 – April 5, 1969
Service recordRichard Tyrone Leavell, of Jeffersonville, Indiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 5, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 19
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Assaultman (0351)
- Born
- October 16, 1947
- Home of record
- Jeffersonville, Indiana (Clark County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 5, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date April 5, 1969; 18 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 27W, Line 19
- BURLEY DARREL KIRACOFECorporal · April 5, 1969
- PAUL RAYMOND LEHOULLIERLance Corporal · April 5, 1969
- WILLIAM MARVIN LIGHTSergeant · April 5, 1969
- ROBERT CHAGOYA LIRAPrivate First Class · April 5, 1969
From Jeffersonville
- LEONARD ISLER CRAVENStaff Sergeant · February 11, 1966
- DAVID MARVIN JOLLEY JRSpecialist Four · May 22, 1966
- GUY CLIFTON GETTINGSPrivate First Class · April 26, 1967
- RICHARD LOUIS BARTLEYCorporal · January 31, 1968
- WILLIAM EUGENE MORMAN JRSergeant · November 11, 1968
- MALCOLM EUGENE LOMAXPrivate · November 27, 1968
- CARL RODMAN HINKLESpecialist Four · December 29, 1968
- JAMES HOWELL SUMNERFirst Sergeant · May 2, 1969
- ROBERT DEAN LEWISSpecialist Four · May 12, 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.