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RICHARD FREDRICK RENNOLET
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 12, 1949 – April 14, 1968
Service recordRichard Fredrick Rennolet, of Aberdeen, South Dakota, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 14, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 50E, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 50E · Line 1
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 92 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- May 12, 1949
- Home of record
- Aberdeen, South Dakota (Brown County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 14, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date April 14, 1968; he was the only one lost in Bien Hoa Province that day. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “92 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 50E, Line 1
- GEORGE QUAMOMajor · April 14, 1968
- PHILIP FRANCIS SHERIDANLance Corporal · April 14, 1968
- RONALD CARLTON SMITHSpecialist Four · April 14, 1968
- STANLEY R STELLMACH JRSergeant · April 14, 1968
From Aberdeen
- RONALD RUSSELL SCHNAIDTAirman First Class · April 5, 1967
- CHARLES J MILBRANDTSpecialist Four · May 13, 1967
- VERN JACOB FRIEDPrivate First Class · February 7, 1968
- DENNIS RICHARD VOLKSpecialist Five · June 5, 1968
- DONALD DUANE KORBPlatoon Sergeant · June 21, 1968
- EDGAR DONALD MATTHEWSSergeant First Class · June 3, 1970
- DONALD DEAN LAYTONPrivate First Class · August 4, 1970
- LONNIE LEE STERNPrivate First Class · January 3, 1971
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.