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RICHARD GLEN WOLFF
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 7, 1948 – September 24, 1968
Service recordRichard Glen Wolff, of Newark, New Jersey, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 24, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 42W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42W · Line 9
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- April 7, 1948
- Home of record
- Newark, New Jersey (Essex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 24, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date September 24, 1968; three of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 42W, Line 9
- MICHAEL DEAN MCNAUGHTONPrivate First Class · September 24, 1968
- DENNIS KNUTE BLAINPrivate First Class · September 25, 1968
- SAMMY BURROLA JRSpecialist Four · September 25, 1968
- WILLIAM ARTHUR CAMPBELLPrivate First Class · September 25, 1968
Same unit, same day
- KARL RICHARD HARINGSergeant · Panel 42W, Line 3
From Newark
- KELLY KARL HEINZEStaff Sergeant · August 24, 1965
- LEROY WILLIAMS JRPrivate First Class · October 3, 1965
- RICHARD BURGANSPrivate First Class · October 5, 1965
- SCIP TATESpecialist Four · November 8, 1965
- ROBERT GOINESSergeant · December 5, 1965
- JOHN PRESTON GREENESpecialist Four · December 5, 1965
- WESTOVEL VENABLEPrivate First Class · January 25, 1966
- ROY RANSOM ALLENPrivate First Class · March 21, 1966
- ARNOLD WOODSONSpecialist Four · April 5, 1966
- DONALD EDWIN SIEGWARTHLieutenant (junior grade) · June 17, 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.