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RAYMOND LYN COLLIER
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
December 22, 1945 – May 23, 1969
Service recordRaymond Lyn Collier, of South Berwick, Maine, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 23, 1969, in Long Khanh Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 83 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 83
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- December 22, 1945
- Home of record
- South Berwick, Maine (York County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 23, 1969
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Long Khanh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date May 23, 1969; two of them were lost in Long Khanh Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 24W, Line 83
- JACK VANN CRUMPFirst Lieutenant · May 23, 1969
- ROBERT ARTHUR DOBBSStaff Sergeant · May 23, 1969
- JOSEPH DENNIS FISCHERPetty Officer Third Class · May 23, 1969
- JOSE M GALARZA-QUINONESCorporal · May 23, 1969
Same unit, same day
- MILFORD EUDENE COBBStaff Sergeant · Panel 24W, Line 82
From South Berwick
- JAMES WILLIAM CLEARYPrivate First Class · April 29, 1969
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.