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RICHARD LEE RUCKER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 28, 1947 – May 30, 1968
Service recordRichard Lee Rucker, of Beallsville, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 30, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 62W, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 62W · Line 1
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- September 28, 1947
- Home of record
- Beallsville, Ohio (Monroe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 30, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
44 names on the Wall carry the date May 30, 1968; five of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 62W, Line 1
- LOUIS JAMES REYNOLDSSergeant · May 30, 1968
- WILLIE JAMES ROSSSpecialist Four · May 30, 1968
- JOHN WILLIAM ROUSECorporal · May 30, 1968
- PAUL EVERETT SCHIEVESpecialist Four · May 30, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ERNEST ALVIN MOLZONPrivate First Class · Panel 63W, Line 19
- HERBERT DONALD SNELLPrivate First Class · Panel 62W, Line 2
From Beallsville
- JACK PITTMANPrivate First Class · July 25, 1966
- DUANE THEODORE GREENLEEPrivate First Class · August 25, 1966
- CHARLES GLENN SCHNEGGCorporal · December 4, 1967
- WILLIAM ROBERT LUCASPetty Officer Third Class · March 9, 1969
- PHILLIP MICHAEL BRANDONSpecialist Four · March 7, 1971
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.