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RICHARD EUGENE TRASTER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 16, 1946 – August 30, 1968
Service recordRichard Eugene Traster, of Mcminnville, Oregon, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 30, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 45W, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45W · Line 6
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Radio Operator (05B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- March 16, 1946
- Home of record
- Mcminnville, Oregon (Yamhill County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 30, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date August 30, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 30 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 45W, Line 6
- MAURICE JOHN HAASSergeant · August 30, 1968
- EDWARD ODAY HASKETTPrivate · August 30, 1968
- RAMON S HERNANDEZ JRPrivate First Class · August 30, 1968
- JAMES HENRY JESSMANPrivate First Class · August 30, 1968
Same unit, same day
- TADEUSZ SOSNIAKMaster Sergeant · Panel 45W, Line 10
From Mcminnville
- MICHAEL GLENN TURNERLance Corporal · April 21, 1968
- ROGER WILLIAM SHIPLEYSergeant · June 6, 1968
- JON WALTER LAYTON IIIFirst Lieutenant · June 27, 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.