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GUY RICHARD KING
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 19, 1948 – July 19, 1968
Service recordGuy Richard King, of Springfield, Missouri, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 19, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 51W, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 51W · Line 11
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- February 19, 1948
- Home of record
- Springfield, Missouri (Greene County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 19, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date July 19, 1968; five of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 80 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 51W, Line 11
- RICHARD EDWARD DALY JRSergeant · July 18, 1968
- JOSEPH JOHN GUCWAPrivate First Class · July 19, 1968
- THOMAS LEON GUTHRIEStaff Sergeant · July 19, 1968
- DENNIS WRIGHT KEEFELance Corporal · July 19, 1968
- MELVIN STETTINIUS LAMARCorporal · July 19, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CECIL LEROY MATTHEW JRSergeant · Panel 51W, Line 12
- AMOS CHESTER SHERRILL IIPrivate First Class · Panel 51W, Line 13
From Springfield
- SHEPHEN HIETT PHILLIPSSergeant · July 18, 1965
- WILBERT CLAUDE DAVISSergeant · October 12, 1965
- DAVID MARSHALL KNIGHTSpecialist Four · March 30, 1966
- CHARLES EDWARD PHILLIPSPrivate First Class · November 19, 1966
- DOUGLAS BLAKE HAMILTONPrivate First Class · April 24, 1967
- JACK EUGENE GOSS IIPrivate First Class · June 3, 1967
- RANDALL KERWIN RUSSELLSergeant · July 6, 1967
- ROBERT DEAN CRAWFORDPrivate First Class · October 24, 1967
- JAMES DOYLE STOKESPrivate · November 30, 1967
- CHARLES KIRBY WILCOXCaptain · January 9, 1968
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.