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RICHARD EUGENE LOMAX
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 16, 1946 – March 26, 1968
Service recordRichard Eugene Lomax, of Mansfield, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 26, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 37 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 37
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- November 16, 1946
- Home of record
- Mansfield, Ohio (Richland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 26, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
87 names on the Wall carry the date March 26, 1968; two of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 26 of its members that month.
He died in Bien Hoa 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.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 46E, Line 37
- ROGER MARK LINKPrivate First Class · March 26, 1968
- LEONARD LONGHospitalman · March 26, 1968
- LEO JOHN MATYLEWICZSpecialist Four · March 26, 1968
- MARVIN LACY MAYOCorporal · March 26, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RONALD WAYNE BURKHARTSergeant · Panel 46E, Line 29
From Mansfield
- LUTHER EDMOND RITCHEY JRLance Corporal · October 8, 1963
- TYRONE WADE HISEYWarrant Officer 1 · March 30, 1966
- CHARLES MICHAEL TODDPrivate First Class · November 8, 1966
- STANLEY RICHARD GLEISINGERCorporal · November 26, 1966
- ROBERT FRANK RATHBUNPrivate First Class · December 29, 1966
- WILLIAM THEODORE NORRISSpecialist Five · March 17, 1967
- MICHAEL HENRY JULIANPrivate First Class · March 20, 1967
- EDUARD ADOLPH AUERStaff Sergeant · September 19, 1967
- ROBERT LEE FUQUA JRPrivate First Class · October 17, 1967
- WILLIAM DOUGLAS REEVES JRPrivate First Class · November 8, 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.