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SPC Leon Henry Adams

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SPC Leon Henry Adams Veteran

Birth
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Death
9 Jun 1969 (aged 19)
Vietnam
Burial
Whittier, Los Angeles County, California, USA GPS-Latitude: 34.0136106, Longitude: -118.0329893
Plot
Garden of Prayer Lawn, Gate 1, Section 10, Lot 950, Grave 3
Memorial ID
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Casualty Country Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam)
Casualty Type Hostile - Died of Wounds
Casualty Reason Multi-Fragment Wounds
Casualty Air Ground Casualty
Body Status Body Recovered
Service Branch Department of the Army
Component Regular (RA, USN, USAF, USMC, USCG)
Military Grade Specialist Fourth Class
Pay Grade Specialist Fourth Class (U.S. Army) or Corporal (U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corps) or Sergeant (U.S. Air Force) or Grade/Rate Abbreviations With First Column: Any Entry; Second Column: N; Third Column: 3; Fourth Column: Blank (U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard) or
Province Military Region 3 - Binh Long
Length of Service 01
Service Occupation Light Weapons Infantry (ARMY)
Data Source Combat Area Casualties Current File

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SP4 Leon Henry Adams was assigned to C Company, 2nd Bn, 2nd Infantry. On 9 June 1969 he was killed in action in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, approximately 7 kilometers northwest of An Loc city.

Burial location is from Rose Lawn's records; his father James Henry Adams (died 1983) is in Grave 2.

SP4 Adams is on the Wall - Panel 23 West, Row 116.
Casualty Country Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam)
Casualty Type Hostile - Died of Wounds
Casualty Reason Multi-Fragment Wounds
Casualty Air Ground Casualty
Body Status Body Recovered
Service Branch Department of the Army
Component Regular (RA, USN, USAF, USMC, USCG)
Military Grade Specialist Fourth Class
Pay Grade Specialist Fourth Class (U.S. Army) or Corporal (U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corps) or Sergeant (U.S. Air Force) or Grade/Rate Abbreviations With First Column: Any Entry; Second Column: N; Third Column: 3; Fourth Column: Blank (U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard) or
Province Military Region 3 - Binh Long
Length of Service 01
Service Occupation Light Weapons Infantry (ARMY)
Data Source Combat Area Casualties Current File

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SP4 Leon Henry Adams was assigned to C Company, 2nd Bn, 2nd Infantry. On 9 June 1969 he was killed in action in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, approximately 7 kilometers northwest of An Loc city.

Burial location is from Rose Lawn's records; his father James Henry Adams (died 1983) is in Grave 2.

SP4 Adams is on the Wall - Panel 23 West, Row 116.


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