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RICHARD EDWARD OCONNER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
October 13, 1946 – January 31, 1968
Service recordRichard Edward Oconner, of New York, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 31, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36E · Line 29
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- October 13, 1946
- Home of record
- New York, New York (Kings County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 31, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
246 names on the Wall carry the date January 31, 1968; nine of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 22 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Tín 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 36E, Line 29
- NESTOR OJEDACorporal · January 31, 1968
- DAVID LLOYD PARKERSpecialist Four · January 31, 1968
- RODNEY GUSTAVUS PASCASCIOPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
- JIMMIE PATTENSergeant · January 31, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DON PRIENSpecialist Four · Panel 36E, Line 23
- MICHAEL ANTHONY MANGIOLARDOPrivate First Class · Panel 36E, Line 31
From New York
- WALTER R MCCARTHY JRCaptain · June 16, 1962
- JOHN HOWARD MCCLEANCaptain · August 16, 1963
- DONALD ALLAN MOLLICONEFirst Lieutenant · December 20, 1963
- VINCENT JOSEPH HICKMANCaptain · January 14, 1964
- MARTIN STOCKFEDERPrivate First Class · July 15, 1964
- ROBERT GEORGE ARMSTRONGFirst Lieutenant · October 24, 1964
- DOMINICK SANSONESergeant First Class · December 10, 1964
- DONALD GILBERT COOKColonel · December 31, 1964
- TERENCE MEREDITH MURPHYLieutenant (junior grade) · April 9, 1965
- ROBERT CARL WISTRANDColonel · May 9, 1965
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.