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RICHARD EDWARD WAGNER
Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 18, 1945 – February 12, 1968
Service recordRichard Edward Wagner, of Moscow, Ohio, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 12, 1968, in Quang Duc Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39E · Line 15
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- May 18, 1945
- Home of record
- Moscow, Ohio (Clermont County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 12, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Duc
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date February 12, 1968; ten of them were lost in Quang Duc Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
He died in Quang Duc 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.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 39E, Line 15
- WILLIAM JAMES WEBERSpecialist Four · February 12, 1968
- DAVID CHARLES WILLIAMSSpecialist Five · February 12, 1968
- RANDALL ALAN WOOLCOTTPrivate First Class · February 12, 1968
- WILLARD GERALD WRIGHTPrivate First Class · February 12, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES LEE COKERPrivate First Class · Panel 39E, Line 3
- ELVESTER HESTER JRPrivate First Class · Panel 39E, Line 6
- GEOVEL LOPEZ-GARCIACorporal · Panel 39E, Line 8
- BOBBY COLLINS SUTHERLANDSpecialist Four · Panel 39E, Line 13
- JAMES PAUL VOJIRPrivate First Class · Panel 39E, Line 14
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.