LEE R MCELHANEY
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HONORED ON PANEL 42W, LINE 20 OF THE WALL

LEE ROY MCELHANEY

WALL NAME

LEE R MCELHANEY

PANEL / LINE

42W/20

DATE OF BIRTH

06/07/1947

CASUALTY PROVINCE

KIEN HOA

DATE OF CASUALTY

09/26/1968

HOME OF RECORD

TEN MILE

COUNTY OF RECORD

Meigs County

STATE

TN

BRANCH OF SERVICE

ARMY

RANK

SP4

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REMEMBRANCES

LEFT FOR LEE ROY MCELHANEY
POSTED ON 7.19.2023
POSTED BY: john fabris

honoring you....

A butterfly lights beside us like a sunbeam
And for a brief moment its glory
and beauty belong to our world
But then it flies again
And though we wish it could have stayed...
We feel lucky to have seen it.
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POSTED ON 6.4.2023
POSTED BY: Sandy Eaton

Thank You, Big Brother.

Lee was my big brother, I would like to thank each and every one of you for your kind and thoughtful words, I was only 5 years old when Lee was Killed, but I was his baby girl, I can remember this like it was yesterday, it was a Saturday morning, watching cartoons. I watched the big black car pull in the driveway, I remember running screaming, Daddy, Daddy, we have a black car in the driveway, my Daddy went to the door, I was standing behind him when he opened the door to the man in uniform, that told him Lee was Killed. this will be forever burned in my memories.
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POSTED ON 5.28.2023
POSTED BY: ANON

76

Never forgotten.

HOOAH
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POSTED ON 8.12.2020
POSTED BY: Lucy Micik

Thank You

Dear Sp4 Lee McElhaney, Thank you for your service as a Field Artillery Basic. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. Time passes quickly, but our world needs help. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage, guidance and faithfulness. Rest in peace with the angels.
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POSTED ON 1.11.2018

Ground Casualty

CPL William F. LeMoine, SP4 Lee R. McElhaney, and PFC Carlton Ross were artillerymen serving with A Battery, 3rd Battalion, 34th Artillery, 9th Infantry Division, part of the Mobile Riverine Force, a joint U.S. Army and U.S. Navy force in Vietnam's southern Mekong Delta. At 1:40 AM on September 26, 1968, the artillery barge they were on at FSPB David in Kien Hoa Province, RVN, was hit by a water mine. LeMoine, McElhaney, and Ross were killed in the attack, and another eight were wounded. The explosion blew an 8 by 10 foot hole through the deck of the personnel department on the barge, demonstrating the lethality of Viet Cong sapper/swimmers. Ross was posthumously promoted to corporal. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and rivervet.com]
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