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RAYMOND LEE GOODMAN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 21, 1948 – June 12, 1968
Service recordRaymond Lee Goodman, of Lynchburg, Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 12, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 58W, Line 31 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 58W · Line 31
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Basic (13A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SVE BTRY 2 BN 32 ARTY II FF
- Born
- January 21, 1948
- Home of record
- Lynchburg, Virginia (Lynchburg (City) County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 12, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date June 12, 1968; five of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 58W, Line 31
- BILLY JOE WYATTLance Corporal · June 11, 1968
- GLENN JOHN ZAMORSKIFirst Lieutenant · June 11, 1968
- ALTO ANDERSON JRStaff Sergeant · June 12, 1968
- OSCAR GENTRY JRLance Corporal · June 12, 1968
From Lynchburg
- KENNETH ARTHUR SHANNONFirst Lieutenant · March 15, 1964
- JAMES EDWARD HUGHESStaff Sergeant · March 13, 1966
- DONALD E CLARK JRCaptain · March 23, 1966
- LARRY FRANCIS WIRTSpecialist Four · April 23, 1966
- HARRY BURKLEY FORBESSpecialist Five · June 29, 1966
- CALVERT JAMES JOHNSONSergeant · November 8, 1966
- STEPHEN FINNEYSpecialist Four · December 28, 1966
- EUGENE DAVID HARVEYPrivate First Class · June 23, 1967
- RICHARD JUNIOR JONESPrivate First Class · October 13, 1967
- RUSSELL KEITH BLATZSpecialist Four · January 8, 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.