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Casualty Info
Home Town North Miami Beach
Last Address North Miami Beach
Casualty Date Jan 12, 1966
Cause MIA-Finding of Death
Reason Air Loss, Crash - Sea
Location Vietnam, South (Vietnam)
Conflict Vietnam War
Location of Interment Lakeside Memorial Park - Doral, Florida
SP4 Lee Rosenwasser was an 18 year old U.S. Army Soldier who died while serving in the Vietnam War. He had been in Vietnam for almost eight months. He was a helicopter repairman who was onboard a Huey (UH-1) helicopter when it was shot down. The helicopter was flying toward the ocean when it was hit by .30 caliber fire, it flew across the beach, and then it hit the ocean about 100 yards offshore. Also killed were CW2 Robert M Dowling and CW2 Russell W. Kistler. They were all members of the 197th Attack Helicopter Company, 145th Aviation Battalion, 12th Aviation Group.
Service Number: 14884051
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From The Miami News, January 23, 1966
Spec. 4C Rosenwasser
A graveside military service for Spec. 4C Lee E. Rosenwasser, 18, Miami soldier killed in Viet Nam, will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Lakeside Memorial Park Cemetery.
Dr. Max A. Lipchitz of Beth Torah Congregation will conduct the service and members of the Air Force from the Homestead base will take part. Riverside Alton Road Chapel is in charge.
Rosenwasser, son of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Rosenwasser of 650 NE 178th St., was killed in combat Jan. 12.
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From The Miami News, August 18, 1967
The Age 18, by Bill Baggs
Lee Rosenwasser was 18 and a long way from his home in North Miami Beach.
Behind the young man wee 283 combat missions in Vietnam, and now his hleicopter, on the 284th combat mission was evacuating woulded Marines from the jungles in Vietnam.
The military report simply said that his unarmed helicopter plunged into the South China Sea during the operation and life ended fro Lee Rosenwasser.
You think of this young man, claimed by death so early in life, and the many other men just in the foothills of living as the Legislature discusses whether a man should be younger than 21 in order to vote.
The argument for giving the franchise to men of 18 has been that if you are old enough to fight, then you are old enough to vote. Some say it is an emotional argument. Well, most arguments have some ingredient of emotion in them, anyway.
