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RICHARD HAUSE SWEGER
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
September 19, 1927 – January 2, 1969
Service recordRichard Hause Sweger, of Lemoyne, Pennsylvania, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 2, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 41. His name is inscribed on Panel 35W, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35W · Line 22
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Nuclear, Biological, And Chemical (Nbc) Specialist (54E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- AMERICAL DIV
- Born
- September 19, 1927
- Home of record
- Lemoyne, Pennsylvania (Cumberland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 2, 1969
- Age
- 41
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date January 2, 1969; he was the only one lost in Quảng Tín Province that day. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 35W, Line 22
- RICHARD CLAIR SEELYCorporal · January 2, 1969
- CHARLES EDWARD SELLNERWarrant Officer 1 · January 2, 1969
- BOBBY GENE STEVENSONStaff Sergeant · January 2, 1969
- WILLEY EDGAR WILLIAMS JRSpecialist Four · January 2, 1969
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES DIETER GROHSergeant · Panel 35W, Line 19
From Lemoyne
- RICKY LEE NULLPrivate First Class · April 20, 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.