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RICHARD CHARLES ARCHER
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
August 27, 1944 – September 25, 1967
Service recordRichard Charles Archer, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on September 25, 1967, in North Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27E · Line 8
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Machinist's Mate (MM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 7 FLT
- Born
- August 27, 1944
- Home of record
- Hyannis, Massachusetts (Barnstable County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 25, 1967
- Age
- 23
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Ship/Submarine Accident At Sea (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date September 25, 1967. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 27E, Line 8
- KENNETH LEON TURNERPrivate First Class · September 24, 1967
- ABRAHAM WOODSPrivate First Class · September 24, 1967
- JOSEPH ARCHULETASpecialist Four · September 25, 1967
- CHARLES DAVID BOLDTPrivate First Class · September 25, 1967
From Hyannis
- ALFRED WILLIAM SPEYERLance Corporal · March 3, 1968
- RICHARD EMIL OLSONStaff Sergeant · February 23, 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.