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RICHARD FREDERICK LINKS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
September 26, 1946 – March 31, 1968
Service recordRichard Frederick Links, of Noank, Connecticut, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 31, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47E · 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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- September 26, 1946
- Home of record
- Noank, Connecticut (New London County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 31, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date March 31, 1968; 30 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Thừa Thiên 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.
Also on Panel 47E, Line 23
- GRAT ALBERT KEENECorporal · March 31, 1968
- THOMAS JAMES KOVACEVICHPrivate First Class · March 31, 1968
- ALLAN LEON MAIRPetty Officer Third Class · March 31, 1968
- JOHN PHILLIP MATLOCKSpecialist Four · March 31, 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.