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RICHARD CLAIR MALONE
Second Lieutenant · U.S. Army
April 23, 1943 – May 7, 1967
Service recordRichard Clair Malone, of Kempton, Illinois, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 7, 1967, in Darlac Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 19E, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19E · Line 53
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Second Lieutenant (2LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Born
- April 23, 1943
- Home of record
- Kempton, Illinois (Ford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 7, 1967
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Darlac
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date May 7, 1967; he was the only one lost in Darlac Province that day. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 19E, Line 53
- MILTON LEE HALLSergeant · May 7, 1967
- FRANKLIN CHARLES LEWISSergeant · May 7, 1967
- DAVID WILLIAM LINNCorporal · May 7, 1967
- ROBERT ARNOLD METTERTCorporal · May 7, 1967
- LOUIS DAVID VIGILLance Corporal · May 7, 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.