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RICHARD ALLEN MENEES

Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

January 31, 1945 – March 31, 1967

Service record

Richard Allen Menees, of Blue Mountain, Mississippi, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 31, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 80 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 17E · Line 80

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Service

Branch: U.S. Marine Corps
Rank: Sergeant (SGT)
Service: Regular
Occupation: Field Artillery Cannoneer (0811)
Born: January 31, 1945
Home of record: Blue Mountain, Mississippi (Tippah County)

Casualty

Date of death: March 31, 1967
Age: 22
Province: Quang Tri
Country: South Vietnam
Casualty type: Hostile
Category: Killed in Action
Circumstance: Unknown

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What was happening

30 names on the Wall carry the date March 31, 1967; four of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 17E, Line 80

PATRICK TIMOTHY MERCIERSpecialist Four · March 31, 1967
JAMES RAYMOND MORGANPrivate First Class · March 31, 1967
WILLIAM ROBERT PETERSENPrivate First Class · March 31, 1967
CHARLES RICHARD PUTNAMFirst Sergeant · March 31, 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.