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RAYMOND ALLAN RENZ
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 22, 1946 – June 2, 1967
Service recordRaymond Allan Renz, of Hawthorne, New Jersey, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 2, 1967, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21E · Line 38
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 Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- November 22, 1946
- Home of record
- Hawthorne, New Jersey (Passaic County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 2, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
50 names on the Wall carry the date June 2, 1967; two of them were lost in Long An Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 21E, Line 38
- WILLIAM ALLEN RAWSONSecond Lieutenant · June 2, 1967
- ALTON CRAIG ROCKETT JRLieutenant Colonel · June 2, 1967
- JOSEPH JOHN SELLERPrivate First Class · June 2, 1967
- WILLIAM ANDREW SINCHAKPrivate First Class · June 2, 1967
From Hawthorne
- WILLIAM GEORGE DUTCHESLance Corporal · June 14, 1966
- DENIS LAVERN SIMONEPetty Officer Second Class · October 23, 1968
- RICHARD J ROUGHGARDENFirst Lieutenant · September 14, 1969
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.