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TIMOTHY KIM LECLAIR
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
April 3, 1944 – May 19, 1969
Service recordTimothy Kim Leclair, of Webster Groves, Missouri, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 19, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 55 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 55
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- April 3, 1944
- Home of record
- Webster Groves, Missouri (St Louis County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 19, 1969
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date May 19, 1969; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 178 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Hamburger Hill was under way. On Đồng Ấp Bia (Hill 937) in the A Shau Valley (10–20 May 1969), the 101st Airborne Division attacked entrenched North Vietnamese troops for ten days; the soldiers called it “Hamburger Hill.” The heavy losses fed the debate at home over the war’s tactics. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 24W, Line 55
- DONALD LYNN KELLYFirst Lieutenant · May 19, 1969
- EDDIE MONTGOMERY JRCorporal · May 19, 1969
- KENNETH ALAN PAVANSergeant · May 19, 1969
- THOMAS CHARLES TREIBLECorporal · May 19, 1969
Same unit, same day
- RANDALL ALAN MEESpecialist Four · Panel 24W, Line 56
- HOWARD MATHIS PETERSONSergeant · Panel 24W, Line 56
From Webster Groves
- NORMAN EDWARD SNODGRASSPrivate First Class · August 15, 1965
- LAWRENCE ANDRE DIRNBERGERSecond Lieutenant · February 25, 1967
- WILLIAM HAROLD WALTERSSpecialist Four · September 30, 1967
- JOHN MARSHALL SNYDER JRLance Corporal · April 7, 1968
- RALPH JOSEPH LUEBBERS JRLance Corporal · May 28, 1968
- RONALD EUGENE SHEPPARDPrivate · September 20, 1968
- WILLIAM DANIEL WINKELPrivate First Class · January 31, 1969
- VICTOR JOHN CARTIERPrivate First Class · April 8, 1969
- JAMES ALBERT HULL JRSergeant · May 17, 1969
- JAMES ARTHUR WINFREYCorporal · August 7, 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.