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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Timothy Francis Liese.

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TIMOTHY FRANCIS LIESE

Corporal · U.S. Army

September 12, 1948 – August 29, 1967

Service record

Timothy Francis Liese, of Ferguson, Missouri, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on August 29, 1967, in Kien Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 63 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 25E · Line 63

Position of Panel 25E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
September 12, 1948
Home of record
Ferguson, Missouri (St Louis County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 29, 1967
Age
18
Province
Kien Tuong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

31 names on the Wall carry the date August 29, 1967; he was the only one lost in Kien Tuong Province that day. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 32 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 25E, Line 63

Same unit, same day

From Ferguson

All 12 names from Ferguson →

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.