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ERNST RILEY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 25, 1948 – August 1, 1967
Service recordErnst Riley, of Kuttawa, Kentucky, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 1, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 24E, Line 63 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24E · Line 63
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 114 AVN CO 13 AVN BN DEL PROV GRP 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- June 25, 1948
- Home of record
- Kuttawa, Kentucky (Lyon County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 1, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date August 1, 1967. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “114 AVN CO 13 AVN BN DEL PROV GRP 1 AVN BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 24E, Line 63
- JAMES PATRICK PROCTORLance Corporal · August 1, 1967
- RICHARD JARRELL REMEDIESPrivate First Class · August 1, 1967
- STANLEY JOSEPH SEAVERSPrivate First Class · August 1, 1967
- WILLIAM S SIMMONS JRPrivate First Class · August 1, 1967
Same unit, same day
- PAUL SILVEY COLVINFirst Lieutenant · Panel 24E, Line 59
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.