Pvt Leatherbury #2279051
MOS: 0311 Rifleman.
Upon arriving in Vietnam, Louis was assigned to India Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. Louis assigned to a security detail on a truck convoy when the convoy was ambushed by hostile forces. Louis died as a result of a hostile gunshot wound to the chest.
Tour of duty unknown.
Survived by his wife, Bettina Leatherbury, his mother; Anna Elizabeth Leatherbury, and his brothers and sisters, Charles H, Ludy M, Jay K, Zelda, Joanne, Sheila, Brenda and Susan, his grandmother; Hattie S Gordon all of Wilmington, Delaware, and his father, Ludy L Leatherbury of address unknown.
Pvt Leatherbury #2279051
MOS: 0311 Rifleman.
Upon arriving in Vietnam, Louis was assigned to India Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. Louis assigned to a security detail on a truck convoy when the convoy was ambushed by hostile forces. Louis died as a result of a hostile gunshot wound to the chest.
Tour of duty unknown.
Survived by his wife, Bettina Leatherbury, his mother; Anna Elizabeth Leatherbury, and his brothers and sisters, Charles H, Ludy M, Jay K, Zelda, Joanne, Sheila, Brenda and Susan, his grandmother; Hattie S Gordon all of Wilmington, Delaware, and his father, Ludy L Leatherbury of address unknown.
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Records on Ancestry
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Pvt Louis Anthony Leatherbury
U.S., Newspapers.com™ Marriage Index, 1800s-2020
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Pvt Louis Anthony Leatherbury
U.S., Veterans' Gravesites, ca.1775-2019
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Pvt Louis Anthony Leatherbury
U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010
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Pvt Louis Anthony Leatherbury
Vietnam War: U.S. Military Casualties, 1956-1998
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Pvt Louis Anthony Leatherbury
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
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