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RAYMOND HORACE PIKE JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 3, 1948 – January 31, 1968
Service recordRaymond Horace Pike JR, of Leavenworth, Kansas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 31, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36E · Line 30
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 584 MED CO USARV
- Born
- March 3, 1948
- Home of record
- Leavenworth, Kansas (Leavenworth County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 31, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
246 names on the Wall carry the date January 31, 1968; 34 of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Bien Hoa Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 36E, Line 30
- LEEROY ELDRED PEEKSPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
- EDWARD MORRIS PIKESpecialist Four · January 31, 1968
- BENJAMIN FREDERICK PITTSCorporal · January 31, 1968
- MARVIN JAMES PLATAMaster Sergeant · January 31, 1968
From Leavenworth
- MURVIN SCHALIPP JRSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- EDDIE RAY DERRITTCorporal · May 3, 1966
- GARY DEAN LITTLESpecialist Five · July 8, 1967
- WESLEY LEE GOOCHPrivate First Class · January 12, 1968
- TERENCE FAIRCHILD SAGECaptain · January 31, 1968
- HARRY IVAN FUQUA JRPrivate First Class · February 29, 1968
- JOE LOUIS EMERYPrivate First Class · December 27, 1968
- HAROLD KENNETH RINGFirst Lieutenant · February 23, 1969
- CARROLL WAYNE SPRAGINSCaptain · March 10, 1970
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.