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RANDY DAVID RAY
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 19, 1948 – December 5, 1970
Service recordRandy David Ray, of Prairie Village, Kansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 5, 1970, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 108 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6W · Line 108
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Military Police (95B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
- Born
- August 19, 1948
- Home of record
- Prairie Village, Kansas (Johnson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 5, 1970
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
Eight names on the Wall carry the date December 5, 1970; he was the only one lost in Pleiku Province that day. In December 1970, 271 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 29 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 6W, Line 108
- DAVID JOHN SCHMERBECKColonel · October 2, 1970
- WAYNE LEE KENTPrivate First Class · December 5, 1970
- SAI GIN LEWPrivate First Class · December 5, 1970
- BOBBY LEE ROBERTSONSpecialist Four · December 5, 1970
- BRUCE WAYNE SPRINGSergeant · December 5, 1970
From Prairie Village
- JAMES MALCOLM ARBUTHNOTSpecialist Four · March 30, 1966
- ROBERT JOHN GROTHAUS IIPrivate First Class · May 14, 1968
- FREDERICK E HUTTIE IIIStaff Sergeant · August 15, 1970
- GARY LESLIE SHANKLieutenant · July 23, 1972
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.