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RICHARD LEE HALGREN
Airman First Class · U.S. Air Force
June 4, 1946 – September 24, 1968
Service recordRichard Lee Halgren, of Nashua, New Hampshire, served as an Airman First Class in the U.S. Air Force. He died on September 24, 1968, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 42W, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42W · Line 58
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Airman First Class (A1C)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- June 4, 1946
- Home of record
- Nashua, New Hampshire (Hillsborough County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 24, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date September 24, 1968. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 42W, Line 58
- WILLIE JAMES MCKENZIECorporal · October 1, 1968
- FREDDIE MCQUEENPrivate First Class · October 1, 1968
- REUBEN MILEY JRLance Corporal · October 1, 1968
- VICTOR PEREZ JRCorporal · October 1, 1968
- WARD EUGENE SEESergeant · October 1, 1968
From Nashua
- ROBERT LOUIS GARDNERSergeant · June 13, 1962
- CZESLAW KOWALCZYKStaff Sergeant · December 5, 1965
- WILLIAM WILKOWSKY JRPrivate First Class · April 30, 1966
- DAVID HOWARD WELLERPrivate First Class · June 2, 1967
- MARTIN JAMES CORONISWarrant Officer 1 · July 11, 1967
- GEORGE FRANCIS FLANAGANStaff Sergeant · January 4, 1968
- WARREN RICHARD BROWNSpecialist Four · February 22, 1968
- KENNETH WALTER HALLLieutenant Colonel · June 24, 1968
- ARMAND ALVIN SYLVESTRECaptain · July 15, 1968
- THOMAS DENNIS NADEAUSpecialist Four · August 11, 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.