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RAYMOND HENRY KNIGHT
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
January 27, 1942 – March 25, 1967
Service recordRaymond Henry Knight, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on March 25, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 44 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 44
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- January 27, 1942
- Home of record
- Council Bluffs, Iowa (Pottawattamie County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 25, 1967
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date March 25, 1967; 11 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 145 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 44
- ROCKWELL SELDEN HERRONPrivate First Class · March 25, 1967
- JAMES HAMILTON HISELieutenant (junior grade) · March 25, 1967
- KENNETH JOHNSONSpecialist Four · March 25, 1967
- CURTIS CHARLES JOOSTENPrivate First Class · March 25, 1967
Same unit, same day
- LOYD LINDAL MCBROOMSergeant · Panel 17E, Line 46
- MICHAEL WILLIAM TWIGGSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 47
From Council Bluffs
- MELVIN JOSEPH KILLIANColonel · September 30, 1965
- PHILLIP HARRY GREGOPrivate First Class · August 23, 1966
- LEONARD LLOYD MCQUINN JRPrivate First Class · September 5, 1966
- PAUL FRANK WIDTFELDT JRSpecialist Four · October 8, 1966
- DENNIS RAY JENSENPrivate First Class · March 5, 1967
- CLIFFORD DALE NELSONMajor · July 25, 1967
- LOUIS NEWTON COOLEY JRLance Corporal · December 16, 1967
- WILLIAM ALLEN IVESPrivate First Class · March 24, 1968
- KENNETH CARL BAXTERLance Corporal · May 1, 1968
- LYLE PRESTON BILLSPrivate First Class · May 17, 1968
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.