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RICHARD ELI LATIMER JR
First Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps
January 3, 1944 – December 2, 1968
Service recordRichard Eli Latimer JR, of Tinker Afb, Oklahoma, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 2, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 23
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
- First Lieutenant (1STLT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Officer (I) (0302)
- Born
- January 3, 1944
- Home of record
- Tinker Afb, Oklahoma (Oklahoma County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 2, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date December 2, 1968; nine of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 23
- DONALD PAUL KREMERPrivate First Class · December 2, 1968
- CLARANCE LEE LOVELance Corporal · December 2, 1968
- JOHN EDGAR MARASONCorporal · December 2, 1968
- DUNCAN B MCINTYRECaptain · December 2, 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.