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RICHARD MARTIN SCHMIDT
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 8, 1949 – March 11, 1969
Service recordRichard Martin Schmidt, of New York, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 11, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29W · Line 14
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- January 8, 1949
- Home of record
- New York, New York (Kings County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 11, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
70 names on the Wall carry the date March 11, 1969; four of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 78 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 29W, Line 14
- CHARLES DAVID ROGERSCaptain · March 11, 1969
- CLARENCE LEON ROUSESergeant · March 11, 1969
- ROBERT NED SAULSChief Warrant Officer 2 · March 11, 1969
- JOHN EDWARD SHIRAKAPrivate First Class · March 11, 1969
Same unit, same day
- MICHAEL GEORGE ALLENDORFCorporal · Panel 29W, Line 3
- JAMES EDWARD FOWLERSpecialist Four · Panel 29W, Line 7
- RICHARD HAROLD HAAG JRSpecialist Five · Panel 29W, Line 8
- CLARENCE LEON ROUSESergeant · Panel 29W, Line 14
- DANIEL WAYNE TINDLESpecialist Four · Panel 29W, Line 16
From New York
- WALTER R MCCARTHY JRCaptain · June 16, 1962
- JOHN HOWARD MCCLEANCaptain · August 16, 1963
- DONALD ALLAN MOLLICONEFirst Lieutenant · December 20, 1963
- VINCENT JOSEPH HICKMANCaptain · January 14, 1964
- MARTIN STOCKFEDERPrivate First Class · July 15, 1964
- ROBERT GEORGE ARMSTRONGFirst Lieutenant · October 24, 1964
- DOMINICK SANSONESergeant First Class · December 10, 1964
- DONALD GILBERT COOKColonel · December 31, 1964
- TERENCE MEREDITH MURPHYLieutenant (junior grade) · April 9, 1965
- ROBERT CARL WISTRANDColonel · May 9, 1965
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.