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RALPH MORGAN TRIPLETT
Corporal · U.S. Army
April 26, 1950 – June 18, 1970
Service recordRalph Morgan Triplett, of Portland, Ohio, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on June 18, 1970, in Cambodia, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 9W, Line 66 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 9W · Line 66
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- April 26, 1950
- Home of record
- Portland, Ohio (Meigs County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 18, 1970
- Age
- 20
- Country
- Cambodia
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date June 18, 1970. In June 1970, 560 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 71 of its members that month.
He died in Cambodia while the Cambodian incursion was under way. From 29 April to 30 June 1970, U.S. and South Vietnamese forces crossed into Cambodia to attack North Vietnamese base areas and supply caches; the announcement set off campus protests, including at Kent State.
Also on Panel 9W, Line 66
- STEVEN RAY STOLTZSergeant · June 18, 1970
- BARRY GLENN TUCKERSpecialist Four · June 18, 1970
- THOMAS MICHAEL WHARTONPrivate · June 18, 1970
- FRANK CHARLES ZONAR JRSergeant · June 18, 1970
Same unit, same day
- JAMES ARVIL GREENPrivate First Class · Panel 9W, Line 64
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.