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RICHARD FRANK WALLACE
Captain · U.S. Marine Corps
August 9, 1936 – August 24, 1965
Service recordRichard Frank Wallace, of Evanston, Illinois, served as a Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 24, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6E · Line 7
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Captain (CAPT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Freight Operations Clerk (3111)
- Born
- August 9, 1936
- Home of record
- Evanston, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 24, 1965
- Age
- 29
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
- Incident
- Airplane Crash Hong Kong To Danang Vs
Context · from the records
What was happening
61 names on the Wall carry the date August 24, 1965. In August 1965, 179 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in South Vietnam while Operation Starlite was under way. Operation Starlite (18–24 August 1965), on the Van Tuong peninsula south of Chu Lai, was the first regimental-size U.S. ground battle of the war. Marines attacked the 1st Viet Cong Regiment by helicopter, amphibious landing and on foot. The record gives the date and branch of service but not the exact place.
Also on Panel 6E, Line 7
- ROBERT LARIE HILTONAirman First Class · March 14, 1966
- KARL EDWIN KLUTECaptain · March 14, 1966
- BILLY WAYNE MORTONPrivate First Class · March 14, 1966
- FRANK MULLENPrivate First Class · March 14, 1966
- JAMES EDWARD PLEIMANAirman First Class · March 24, 1966
From Evanston
- JAMES E FULLERPrivate · June 22, 1966
- STEPHEN ARTHUR ANDERSONLance Corporal · September 25, 1966
- MICHAEL CHARLES DOYLEFirst Lieutenant · November 7, 1966
- LEE OWENS WHITE JRSpecialist Four · November 21, 1966
- NELSON SAYLER LEHMAN JRCaptain · March 7, 1967
- CLAYTON WINSLOW JOHNSONFirst Lieutenant · May 26, 1967
- ALLAN JOSEPH HERMANSecond Lieutenant · September 10, 1967
- ROBERT GEORGE KEATSCaptain · February 2, 1968
- ALBERT JEAN MITCHELLPrivate First Class · March 6, 1968
- JOSEPH HENRY BYRNEMajor · March 13, 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.