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LESTER RILEY JR
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
March 9, 1948 – March 10, 1970
Service recordLester Riley JR, of Portageville, Missouri, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 10, 1970, in Binh Thuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 13W, Line 106 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13W · Line 106
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 Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- March 9, 1948
- Home of record
- Portageville, Missouri (New Madrid County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 10, 1970
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Binh Thuy
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date March 10, 1970; he was the only one lost in Binh Thuy Province that day. In March 1970, 625 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 13W, Line 106
- WILLIAM PISHNER JRChief Warrant Officer 2 · March 10, 1970
- BYRON MATTHEW RICHARDSpecialist Four · March 10, 1970
- PAUL ALLEN RICHARDSSpecialist Four · March 10, 1970
- DOMINIC N SCATUORCHIO JRChief Warrant Officer 2 · March 10, 1970
From Portageville
- LARRY GENE BARHAMPrivate First Class · February 6, 1968
- RONALD DOUGLAS RICHARDSONPrivate First Class · May 8, 1968
- JOE PAUL KLIPFELPrivate First Class · December 6, 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.