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RICHARD ARTHUR LANE
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
August 13, 1944 – June 16, 1968
Service recordRichard Arthur Lane, of Fontana, California, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on June 16, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 56W, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 56W · Line 5
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- August 13, 1944
- Home of record
- Fontana, California (San Bernardino County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 16, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
55 names on the Wall carry the date June 16, 1968; he was the only one lost in Quảng Ngãi Province that day. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 42 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 56W, Line 5
- JOHN FRANKLIN KENNEDYPrivate First Class · June 16, 1968
- CHARLES FRANCIS LANDERSPrivate First Class · June 16, 1968
- JAMES KENNETH LEACHPrivate First Class · June 16, 1968
- ARNOLD LEE LEONARD JRLance Corporal · June 16, 1968
From Fontana
- RICHARD ALLEN NOELKEPrivate First Class · November 6, 1965
- DOMINIC ANTHONY CORONAPrivate First Class · July 29, 1966
- GARY RICHARD DANSERSpecialist Four · July 20, 1967
- JOSEPH PENN MAREKPrivate First Class · November 15, 1967
- JOHN ARLINGTON RODGERSSpecialist Four · April 20, 1968
- RONALD ELLIS WILTSEFirst Lieutenant · May 13, 1968
- GARY ELLIS HOADLEYSergeant · August 3, 1968
- CALVIN LEWISCorporal · January 6, 1969
- PARIS WILLIAM MONTANEZPrivate First Class · January 27, 1969
- RICHARD ALLEN BURNSCorporal · February 28, 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.