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Australian, American, South Vietnamese and Korean soldiers at the Đức Mỹ Ranger Training Center, December 1965.
Australian, American, South Vietnamese and Korean soldiers at the Đức Mỹ Ranger Training Center, December 1965. Photo: SP5 Allan K. Holm, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Raymond Alvin Adam.

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RAYMOND ALVIN ADAM

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

October 19, 1934 – April 21, 1964

Service record

Raymond Alvin Adam, of Leola, South Dakota, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 21, 1964, in South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 49 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 1E · Line 49

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant First Class (SFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
October 19, 1934
Home of record
Leola, South Dakota (Mcpherson County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 21, 1964
Age
29
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

Two names on the Wall carry the date April 21, 1964. In April 1964, 12 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 1E, Line 49

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From Leola

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.