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DOUGLAS CECIL RISTINE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 1, 1946 – April 3, 1968
Service recordDouglas Cecil Ristine, of Gothenburg, Nebraska, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 3, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47E · Line 54
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. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- November 1, 1946
- Home of record
- Gothenburg, Nebraska (Dawson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 3, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Died of other causes
Context · from the records
What was happening
65 names on the Wall carry the date April 3, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 47E, Line 54
- ERVIN LEE RUSHLance Corporal · April 3, 1968
- GARY ARDEAN RYDENPrivate First Class · April 3, 1968
- CHARLES PATRICK SCARANOPrivate First Class · April 3, 1968
- RONALD LEE ZACHSpecialist Four · April 3, 1968
From Gothenburg
- LYNN JAY WIESERPrivate First Class · May 13, 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; panel and line confirmed against the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund’s Wall of Faces because the federal record was incomplete. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.