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EDWARD RITSICK
Private First Class · U.S. Army
October 19, 1947 – March 11, 1968
Service recordEdward Ritsick, of Austin, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 11, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 20
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Light Vehicle Driver (64A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- October 19, 1947
- Home of record
- Austin, Pennsylvania (Potter County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 11, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
54 names on the Wall carry the date March 11, 1968; two of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 188 of its members that month.
He died in Hua Nghia Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 44E, Line 20
- DENNIS DALE REEDPrivate First Class · March 11, 1968
- RAYMOND GONZALEZ ROCHASpecialist Four · March 11, 1968
- ALBERT EDUARDO RODRIGUEZCaptain · March 11, 1968
- JAMES LOWELL RUSSELLLance Corporal · March 11, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DALE EDWARD SHIRLEYPrivate First Class · Panel 44E, Line 21
- FLOYD TYRONE SPENCERSergeant · Panel 44E, Line 21
From Austin
- EDGAR ERWIN NUSCHKECaptain · January 21, 1967
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.