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RICHARD JAY HENTZ
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
November 7, 1947 – March 4, 1971
Service recordRichard Jay Hentz, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on March 4, 1971, in North Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 21
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Electronic Warfare/Signal Intelligence Voice Interceptor (98G)
- Unit (as recorded)
- US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
- Born
- November 7, 1947
- Home of record
- Oshkosh, Wisconsin (Winnebago County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 4, 1971
- Age
- 23
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
12 names on the Wall carry the date March 4, 1971. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 60 of its members that month.
The record places this loss in North Vietnam, outside South Vietnam — most often the sign of an air crew lost over the North or the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 4W, Line 21
- MICHAEL RAYMOND COLLINSLieutenant · March 4, 1971
- CHARLIE TIDWELL GAZAWAYSergeant · March 4, 1971
- MICHAEL WAYNE MARKERCaptain · March 4, 1971
- RODNEY DEE OSBORNESpecialist Five · March 4, 1971
Same unit, same day
- HAROLD LOWELL ALGAARDWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 4W, Line 20
- MICHAEL WAYNE MARKERCaptain · Panel 4W, Line 21
- RODNEY DEE OSBORNESpecialist Five · Panel 4W, Line 21
- JOHN THOMAS STRAWNSpecialist Six · Panel 4W, Line 22
From Oshkosh
- ORLAND ORRIN BEARWALDPrivate First Class · September 8, 1965
- KENNETH BRUCE HAWLEYCorporal · August 12, 1966
- PAUL EDWARD MANSKEPrivate First Class · May 13, 1967
- JAMES THOMAS DOBISHPrivate First Class · May 20, 1967
- DONALD ROY LASTSpecialist Four · July 10, 1967
- JAMES ROBERT FISCHERSergeant · July 23, 1967
- RICHARD ALLEN MEHNEPrivate First Class · November 8, 1967
- JAMES JEROME LINDSergeant · January 5, 1968
- CHRISTIAN ALAN LANGENFELDPrivate First Class · January 27, 1968
- STEVEN LYNN ZOBELLance Corporal · May 21, 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.