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RICHARD DOUGLAS CONKLIN
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
April 5, 1949 – June 15, 1968
Service recordRichard Douglas Conklin, of Milford, Connecticut, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 15, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 57W, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 57W · Line 24
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- April 5, 1949
- Home of record
- Milford, Connecticut (New Haven County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 15, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
60 names on the Wall carry the date June 15, 1968; 21 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 57W, Line 24
- LARRY GENE CLARKPrivate First Class · June 15, 1968
- DENNIS CRANECorporal · June 15, 1968
- JAMES DALE CRUSEHospitalman · June 15, 1968
- MICHAEL DENNIS DAVIDSpecialist Four · June 15, 1968
From Milford
- JEFFERY RAYMOND MALONEYCorporal · April 26, 1967
- PAUL JOSEPH BRAUNLance Corporal · April 28, 1967
- HENRY MICHAEL SARMENTOCorporal · May 19, 1967
- ROBERT CHARLES NELSONLance Corporal · July 4, 1967
- WILLIAM JOHN BANNON JRSpecialist Four · April 11, 1969
- THOMAS DANIEL TIGHESergeant · January 10, 1970
- CLIFFORD E PARSONS JRPrivate First Class · July 17, 1970
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.