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RAY THOMAS COMFORT
Private · U.S. Marine Corps
January 26, 1950 – April 13, 1968
Service recordRay Thomas Comfort, of Northumberland, Pennsylvania, served as a Private in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 13, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 49E, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49E · Line 40
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private (PVT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- January 26, 1950
- Home of record
- Northumberland, Pennsylvania (Northumberland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 13, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
60 names on the Wall carry the date April 13, 1968; 26 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 49E, Line 40
- PATRICK HENRY COOK JRSpecialist Four · April 13, 1968
- CHARLES CURTIS CROWPrivate First Class · April 13, 1968
- RICHARD LYNN EMBREYLance Corporal · April 13, 1968
- JAMES EDWARD HODGECorporal · April 13, 1968
From Northumberland
- WILLIAM EUGENE RODKEYCorporal · August 24, 1967
- HARRY LUTHER BUCHERStaff Sergeant · May 9, 1970
- LEROY JAMES WESTRAWarrant Officer 1 · May 25, 1971
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.