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RICHARD GARY BUCCILLE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 2, 1947 – December 20, 1969
Service recordRichard Gary Buccille, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 20, 1969, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 72 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15W · Line 72
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)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- August 2, 1947
- Home of record
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Allegheny County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 20, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date December 20, 1969. In December 1969, 509 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 15W, Line 72
- RICHARD WAGNER FRANK IIWarrant Officer 1 · December 19, 1969
- ROBERT NORMAN NORRISSpecialist Four · December 19, 1969
- MACEY LEE RUCKERPrivate First Class · December 19, 1969
- GERALD EUGENE BUTLERPrivate First Class · December 20, 1969
From Pittsburgh
- CLEVELAND WILLIAM GORDONMajor · January 7, 1964
- THEODORE ALAN WINOWITCHPrivate First Class · December 30, 1964
- CHARLES FREDRICK CLYDESDALELieutenant (junior grade) · March 15, 1965
- WILLIAM DONAVAN BENNINGStaff Sergeant · May 11, 1965
- FRANK HUFFORD BLANKSergeant · August 18, 1965
- JOHN L JEMISONPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- FRANK JOSEPH NADANY JRSergeant First Class · October 31, 1965
- RUSSELL EARL HAMMONDSergeant First Class · November 5, 1965
- HARRY FRANCIS JEDRZEJEWSKIPlatoon Sergeant · November 17, 1965
- RONALD JOSEPH LOERLEINSergeant · November 25, 1965
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.