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RAYMOND KERMIT HONAKER JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 16, 1949 – August 31, 1968
Service recordRaymond Kermit Honaker JR, of Brunswick, Georgia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 31, 1968, in Darlac Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 45W, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45W · Line 14
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Observation/Scout Helicopter Repairer (67V)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- February 16, 1949
- Home of record
- Brunswick, Georgia (Glynn County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 31, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Darlac
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date August 31, 1968; two of them were lost in Darlac Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 61 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 45W, Line 14
- MORRIS GORDON DUNNCorporal · August 31, 1968
- RONALD CLYDE HIGHPrivate First Class · August 31, 1968
- JAMES JOSEPH JENKS JRFirst Lieutenant · August 31, 1968
- JULIAN STANLEY KEE JRSpecialist Four · August 31, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LESLIE DEWAYNE CROUSELieutenant Colonel · Panel 45W, Line 13
- WALTER SCOTT DAVISSpecialist Four · Panel 45W, Line 13
From Brunswick
- ARTHUR MITCHELL DOWNSPrivate First Class · October 17, 1966
- JAMES ROBERT RHODESLance Corporal · January 30, 1967
- LARRY EUGENE LAWRENCELance Corporal · June 6, 1967
- WILLIS LEROY WOODPrivate First Class · September 13, 1967
- WILLIAM TYLER HANCOCKPrivate First Class · April 6, 1968
- DAVID WATSON BRANTLEYSpecialist Four · June 7, 1968
- RUSSELL LAMAR SMITHPrivate First Class · November 28, 1968
- ATWELL ASBELL ARMSTRONGPrivate · December 11, 1968
- MACK DONALD SHARPESpecialist Four · March 29, 1969
- OSCAR THOMAS FRANCISPrivate First Class · April 24, 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.