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RICHARD EDWARD TAMER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
September 6, 1945 – May 21, 1969
Service recordRichard Edward Tamer, of Parma, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 21, 1969, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 72 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 72
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
- Field Artillery Basic (13A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- September 6, 1945
- Home of record
- Parma, Ohio (Cuyahoga County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 21, 1969
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
51 names on the Wall carry the date May 21, 1969; three of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 17 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 24W, Line 72
- SAMUEL RAMOSPrivate First Class · May 21, 1969
- KENNETH DARRELL SPENCERSergeant · May 21, 1969
- LAWRENCE MILTON STUCKWarrant Officer 1 · May 21, 1969
- DOUGLAS GAYLORD SWANSTROMStaff Sergeant · May 21, 1969
From Parma
- ROBERT LOUIS GUERINSpecialist Four · May 21, 1966
- MICHAEL THEODORE SUKARAPrivate First Class · June 11, 1966
- ALAN RALPH STEFFENStaff Sergeant · November 26, 1966
- TERRY LEE DAVISPetty Officer Third Class · February 24, 1967
- JOHN EARL SWEESYPrivate First Class · May 3, 1967
- TERENCE JOSEPH KILBANELance Corporal · July 6, 1967
- JAMES JOHN ZAVOCKYLieutenant (junior grade) · August 25, 1967
- RONALD BRIAN KERNERPrivate First Class · September 10, 1967
- ROBERT LOUIS SASPrivate First Class · November 24, 1967
- DONALD ALBERT BASALLALance Corporal · November 26, 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.