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RANDY LEIGH HEERDT
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 16, 1946 – April 27, 1967
Service recordRandy Leigh Heerdt, of Pound Ridge, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 27, 1967, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 102 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 102
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Pioneer (12A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- March 16, 1946
- Home of record
- Pound Ridge, New York (Westchester County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 27, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Khanh Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date April 27, 1967; he was the only one lost in Khanh Hoa Province that day. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 102
- DAVID CENTENO GRIJALVALance Corporal · April 27, 1967
- MICHAEL GERALD HARTNETTSpecialist Four · April 27, 1967
- LARRY KEITH LEACHPrivate First Class · April 27, 1967
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.