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RICHARD LEE SPAULDING
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
September 18, 1946 – September 10, 1967
Service recordRichard Lee Spaulding, of Englewood, Colorado, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on September 10, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 52 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26E · Line 52
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 3 BN 26 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- September 18, 1946
- Home of record
- Englewood, Colorado (Arapahoe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 10, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
66 names on the Wall carry the date September 10, 1967; 43 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “3 BN 26 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Con Thien was under way. Through September and October 1967, North Vietnamese artillery across the Demilitarized Zone pounded the Marine outpost at Con Thien and the bases along the DMZ in Quảng Trị Province. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 26E, Line 52
- THOMAS ALBERT KRISPINCorporal · September 10, 1967
- FRED DAVID STGEORGESergeant · September 10, 1967
- WILLIAM BYRON STUTESSergeant · September 10, 1967
- STEPHEN LEE TRAUGHBERCorporal · September 10, 1967
Same unit, same day
- ALBERT MICHAEL BUTSKOHospitalman · Panel 26E, Line 43
- ERIC RUDOLPH RADTKEHospitalman · Panel 26E, Line 50
From Englewood
- JERRY LEE POTTERPrivate First Class · November 8, 1965
- RICHARD ALLEN ECKVALLSergeant · March 25, 1966
- IVEL DOAN FREEMANMajor · March 9, 1967
- VICTOR JOE APODACA JRMajor · June 8, 1967
- JERRY CONRAD KELLEYSpecialist Four · November 12, 1967
- DENNIS EDWARD HINTONFirst Lieutenant · May 5, 1968
- MELVIN EARL LADEWIGCaptain · August 24, 1968
- LEON JOSEPH PIERCECaptain · April 16, 1969
- DONALD LEE SENTIPrivate · January 22, 1971
- CARL MITCHELL WOODWarrant Officer 1 · February 5, 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.