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ANDREW WILLIAM RICE JR
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
November 23, 1948 – May 23, 1969
Service recordAndrew William Rice JR, of Ft Richardson, Alaska, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 23, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 89 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 89
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Gunner's Mate (Guns) (GMG)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- November 23, 1948
- Home of record
- Ft Richardson, Alaska
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 23, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date May 23, 1969; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 24W, Line 89
- SANTIAGO V E QUINTANAPrivate First Class · May 23, 1969
- ARMANDO RAMIREZSpecialist Five · May 23, 1969
- ROBERT JOHN RANDALL JRPrivate First Class · May 23, 1969
- DAVID SETH ROSSSergeant · May 23, 1969
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.