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NELSON GRAFTON RICHARDSON
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
April 14, 1951 – February 4, 1971
Service recordNelson Grafton Richardson, of Bar Harbor, Maine, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on February 4, 1971, in Lam Dong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 5W, Line 78 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5W · Line 78
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Construction Equipment Repairer (62B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
- Born
- April 14, 1951
- Home of record
- Bar Harbor, Maine (Hancock County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 4, 1971
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Lam Dong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Died of other causes
Context · from the records
What was happening
Ten names on the Wall carry the date February 4, 1971; he was the only one lost in Lam Dong Province that day. In February 1971, 387 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 68 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 5W, Line 78
- DAYLE RAYMOND HALLSpecialist Four · February 4, 1971
- ANDRES LOPEZ RAMONSpecialist Four · February 4, 1971
- STEPHEN MICHAEL TRAYNORSpecialist Four · February 4, 1971
- PATRICK JOSEPH TROTTERSpecialist Four · February 4, 1971
Same unit, same day
- ANDRES LOPEZ RAMONSpecialist Four · Panel 5W, Line 78
- PATRICK JOSEPH TROTTERSpecialist Four · Panel 5W, Line 78
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.