Lanai City Hawaii

Leonard Masayon Tadios from Maui County Lanai City, Hawaii .

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Friday, December 11, 1964
Death details: Sergeant Leonard Masayon Tadios entered the U.S. Army from Hawaii and was a member of Headquarters, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam. On December 11, 1964, he was serving as the light weapons infantry advisor to the 3rd Battalion, 31st Regiment, Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) when the unit was ambushed by the Viet Cong in Kien Giang Province, in the vicinity of (GC) WR 620 770. SGT Tadios was wounded and then captured by the enemy during the incident. Returned prisoners of war reported providing medical care to SGT Tadios while at “Camp Seven” in the vicinity of (GC) VR 970 497. In March 1966, SGT Tadios was reportedly moved to a hospital where he died on March 20, 1966, and his remains were not returned to the U.S. military at the time, but his name appeared on the 1973 Provisional Revolutionary Government’s Died-in-Captivity List. After the incident, the Army posthumously promoted SGT Tadios to the rank of Staff Sergeant (SSG). Today, Staff Sergeant Tadios is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. His name is also inscribed along with all his fallen comrades on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, DC.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency