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RICARDO GALVAN
Private · U.S. Marine Corps
November 13, 1949 – December 31, 1968
Service recordRicardo Galvan, of Lorain, Ohio, served as a Private in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 31, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 35W, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35W · Line 12
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private (PVT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- November 13, 1949
- Home of record
- Lorain, Ohio (Lorain County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 31, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Died of other causes
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date December 31, 1968; six of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 35W, Line 12
- ROBERT EARL ENRIGHTSpecialist Four · December 31, 1968
- ERNEST EDWARD GARRAHANSergeant · December 31, 1968
- STEVEN EUGENE HESLERPrivate First Class · December 31, 1968
- CHARLES ARTHUR JACKSONStaff Sergeant · December 31, 1968
From Lorain
- RAYMOND ELLSWORTH RUPCICFirst Lieutenant · April 6, 1965
- DONALD RAYMOND BONKOCaptain · November 26, 1965
- RONALD RALICHPrivate First Class · May 29, 1966
- THOMAS REGINALD COWLEYStaff Sergeant · August 28, 1966
- RAYMOND HODOROWSKILance Corporal · March 6, 1967
- GEORGE WILLIAM MCDANIELPrivate First Class · April 29, 1967
- JOSE HECTOR ORTIZPrivate First Class · June 28, 1967
- LARRY EDWARD FIELDSLance Corporal · July 14, 1967
- BRUCE BERNARD LIVINGSTONLance Corporal · September 2, 1967
- ROBERT JOSEPH NAGYPrivate First Class · October 17, 1967
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.