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RICHARD CHARLES BACHERT
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 16, 1949 – December 21, 1968
Service recordRichard Charles Bachert, of Davisburg, Michigan, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 21, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 55 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 55
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Armor Crewman (11E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- February 16, 1949
- Home of record
- Davisburg, Michigan (Oakland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 21, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date December 21, 1968; two of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 55
- RICHARD KENNETH ALLEEColonel · December 21, 1968
- WILLIAM WEBB BLAIR JRCorporal · December 21, 1968
- ROBERT GERDES BLANKPrivate First Class · December 21, 1968
- CHARLES JOSEPH BUCKLEYPrivate First Class · December 21, 1968
Same unit, same day
- EARL WILLIAM THOMAS JRPrivate · Panel 36W, Line 59
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.