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RICHARD GREGORY PHILLIPS
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
April 14, 1947 – July 17, 1969
Service recordRichard Gregory Phillips, of Springfield, Missouri, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on July 17, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · Line 11
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Crewman (11E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- April 14, 1947
- Home of record
- Springfield, Missouri (Greene County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 17, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date July 17, 1969; two of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 64 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20W, Line 11
- JAMES EDWARD LEACHPrivate First Class · July 17, 1969
- LEWIS DEVERN PROBARTCaptain · July 17, 1969
- JULIO QUINONES JRPrivate First Class · July 17, 1969
- GARY WALTON REEDSpecialist Four · July 17, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT FRANKLIN BACONPrivate First Class · Panel 20W, Line 9
- DANIEL MORELAND SHEEHANSpecialist Four · Panel 20W, Line 12
- JONATHAN R VARSWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 20W, Line 12
From Springfield
- SHEPHEN HIETT PHILLIPSSergeant · July 18, 1965
- WILBERT CLAUDE DAVISSergeant · October 12, 1965
- DAVID MARSHALL KNIGHTSpecialist Four · March 30, 1966
- CHARLES EDWARD PHILLIPSPrivate First Class · November 19, 1966
- DOUGLAS BLAKE HAMILTONPrivate First Class · April 24, 1967
- JACK EUGENE GOSS IIPrivate First Class · June 3, 1967
- RANDALL KERWIN RUSSELLSergeant · July 6, 1967
- ROBERT DEAN CRAWFORDPrivate First Class · October 24, 1967
- JAMES DOYLE STOKESPrivate · November 30, 1967
- CHARLES KIRBY WILCOXCaptain · January 9, 1968
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.