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RICHARD DEWEY VICK
Private First Class · U.S. Army
October 13, 1945 – February 20, 1968
Service recordRichard Dewey Vick, of Bemidji, Minnesota, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 20, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 50 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 50
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. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- October 13, 1945
- Home of record
- Bemidji, Minnesota (Beltrami County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 20, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
76 names on the Wall carry the date February 20, 1968; seven of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 40 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Nam Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 40E, Line 50
- HOWARD WILLIAMSStaff Sergeant · February 20, 1968
- JOSEPH PAUL ZALESpecialist Four · February 20, 1968
- DALE EDWARD ANDERSONSpecialist Four · February 21, 1968
- WALTER GILMORE ANDERSONPetty Officer First Class · February 21, 1968
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS ANTHONY ECKLSpecialist Four · Panel 40E, Line 38
From Bemidji
- THOMAS CHARLES LEWERCorporal · February 8, 1968
- ROBERT WAYNE GLIDDENPrivate First Class · April 20, 1968
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.