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RICHARD DANIEL DEVINE JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 25, 1947 – January 10, 1968
Service recordRichard Daniel Devine JR, of Saugus, Massachusetts, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 10, 1968, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34E · Line 17
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Aircraft Structural Repairer (68G)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 615 TRANS DET 52 AVN BN 17 AVN GRP 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- July 25, 1947
- Home of record
- Saugus, Massachusetts (Essex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 10, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
70 names on the Wall carry the date January 10, 1968; seven of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “615 TRANS DET 52 AVN BN 17 AVN GRP 1 AVN BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34E, Line 17
- HENRY JOHN DONESKISergeant · January 10, 1968
- SISIFO FALEAFINESergeant · January 10, 1968
- HERMAN RAY FLETCHERPrivate First Class · January 10, 1968
- DAVID HARPER HERSHBERGERSergeant · January 10, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LOYDE DEAN ARMORSpecialist Four · Panel 34E, Line 13
- THOMAS CARPENTER JRSpecialist Four · Panel 34E, Line 15
From Saugus
- STANLEY JOSEPH EGANSpecialist Four · November 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.