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RICHARD GENE WORMDAHL
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 30, 1945 – December 21, 1966
Service recordRichard Gene Wormdahl, of Sugar Grove, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 21, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 70 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13E · Line 70
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- March 30, 1945
- Home of record
- Sugar Grove, Illinois (Kane County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 21, 1966
- Age
- 21
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date December 21, 1966. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 13E, Line 70
- JAMES FRANCIS WENDOLOWSKISpecialist Four · December 21, 1966
- ROBERT GEORGE WILKIEPrivate First Class · December 21, 1966
- VICENTE ZUNIGASpecialist Four · December 21, 1966
- GENE LYLE BETTGERSpecialist Four · December 22, 1966
Same unit, same day
- JACK EVAN BEAMPrivate First Class · Panel 13E, Line 66
- JAMES FRANCIS WENDOLOWSKISpecialist Four · Panel 13E, Line 70
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.