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RICHARD ALLEN SETTER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 13, 1945 – November 4, 1968
Service recordRichard Allen Setter, of Victor, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 4, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39W · Line 18
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- December 13, 1945
- Home of record
- Victor, New York (Ontario County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 4, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date November 4, 1968; four of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 96 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 39W, Line 18
- PATRICK IRVIN NELMSPrivate First Class · November 4, 1968
- GREGORY LEE PHILLIPSSpecialist Four · November 4, 1968
- ARTHUR JAMES ROSS JRSpecialist Four · November 4, 1968
- OTIS RAYMOND SIMPSONSpecialist Five · November 4, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JOHN MARIO FILIPPELLICorporal · Panel 39W, Line 16
- GREGORY LEE PHILLIPSSpecialist Four · Panel 39W, Line 18
- BARNEY JOE WHITESpecialist Four · Panel 39W, Line 19
From Victor
- EDWARD CHARLES WOODPrivate First Class · May 15, 1966
- TODD WHITNEY OTTMANPrivate First Class · September 18, 1970
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.