Wallace Wilson Leeper

Vietnam War
Unit48th Aviation Company
RankChief Warrant Officer Third Class U.S. Army
Entered Service FromWellington Colorado
Date of DeathDecember 2 1967
StatusRecovered
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
B
Notes
Chief Warrant Officer, Third Class Leeper was a member of the 48th Assault Helicopter Company, 268th Combat Aviation Battalion, 17th Aviation Group. On December 2, 1967, he was the aircraft commander of a Bell Iroquois Utility Helicopter (UH-1D) left Phu Hiep airfield, Phu Kanh Province, South Vietnam to return Captain Woo Shik Pak, a Korean, to his unit 25 miles south. The weather was marginal and the aircraft did not return. His remains were recovered on April 8, 1993 and identified on December 7, 2001. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.
rosetta medal
When an individual’s remains have been accounted for by the U.S. Department of Defense, a rosette is placed next to the name on the Wall/Tablet/Court of the Missing to mark that the person now rests in a known gravesite.