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RICHARD GEORGE LIEWER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 8, 1947 – July 14, 1968
Service recordRichard George Liewer, of Des Moines, Iowa, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 14, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 52W, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 52W · Line 28
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- April 8, 1947
- Home of record
- Des Moines, Iowa (Polk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 14, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date July 14, 1968; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 63 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 52W, Line 28
- JOHN HARVEY FEEZERSpecialist Five · July 14, 1968
- ERNEST JAMES HILLCorporal · July 14, 1968
- CHARLES BRIAN KEATHLEYLance Corporal · July 14, 1968
- HAROLD LEROY LLANESLance Corporal · July 14, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DOUGLAS MICHAEL CAINCorporal · Panel 52W, Line 27
- CLAYTON DAVIS WRIGHTSpecialist Four · Panel 52W, Line 32
From Des Moines
- CONNIE LEROY CHANDLERSergeant · November 20, 1965
- HARRY RICHARD CRUMLEYCaptain · January 25, 1966
- WALTER BOYCE JOHNSONPrivate First Class · January 25, 1966
- MARSHALL MYRON HOLT JRCaptain · March 2, 1966
- STEPHEN PAUL ALSTEDPrivate First Class · March 4, 1966
- DENNIS ARNOLD MAYCaptain · April 29, 1966
- WILLIAM FREDRICK FREESTONEGunnery Sergeant · July 5, 1966
- JERRY LEE LEONARDISergeant First Class · July 10, 1966
- TERRY PATRICK SLOANPetty Officer First Class · November 9, 1966
- LOREN STEVEN REEVESSpecialist Four · November 11, 1966
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.