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RAYMOND SENTER CASSIDY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 6, 1947 – April 24, 1967
Service recordRaymond Senter Cassidy, of Patchogue, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 24, 1967, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 78 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 78
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- May 6, 1947
- Home of record
- Patchogue, New York (Suffolk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 24, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date April 24, 1967; he was the only one lost in Bien Hoa Province that day. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 18E, Line 78
- WAYNE ROBERT BARTHLance Corporal · April 24, 1967
- RALPH WINFIELD CARTERPrivate First Class · April 24, 1967
- RAUL CASAREZPrivate First Class · April 24, 1967
- JUSTINO ENRI CASTRO-RAMOSLance Corporal · April 24, 1967
Same unit, same day
- HOWARD STANLEY DOMINIAKPrivate First Class · Panel 18E, Line 79
From Patchogue
- CARMINE ANTHONY CERVELLINOSpecialist Four · May 5, 1964
- RICHARD DAVID KALERLance Corporal · July 23, 1966
- FRANK CLARK FISHERCorporal · August 27, 1967
- WILLIAM ROBERT BRENNANPrivate First Class · September 5, 1967
- JUSTIN RICHARD SPISTOCaptain · March 4, 1970
- FRANK MICHAEL PERRY JRCorporal · May 31, 1970
- FRANCIS MICHAEL CURRYPrivate First Class · March 15, 1971
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.