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RICHARD MCNEAL
Private First Class · U.S. Army
February 3, 1947 – April 22, 1969
Service recordRichard McNeal, of Arlington, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 22, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26W · Line 26
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)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- February 3, 1947
- Home of record
- Arlington, Tennessee (Shelby County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 22, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date April 22, 1969; three of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 26 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 26W, Line 26
- GUADALUPE FLORESCorporal · April 22, 1969
- THOMAS WAYNE LENZLance Corporal · April 22, 1969
- DALLAS ERVIN MCKINNEY JRSpecialist Four · April 22, 1969
- MEADDOW JOHN OLSONFirst Lieutenant · April 22, 1969
Same unit, same day
- DALLAS ERVIN MCKINNEY JRSpecialist Four · Panel 26W, Line 26
- JOHNNIE PERRY STEPHENS JRFirst Lieutenant · Panel 26W, Line 28
From Arlington
- LARRY EDWARD WASHINGTONCorporal · September 18, 1966
- MALCOLM RICHARD WISEMANSecond Lieutenant · September 20, 1967
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.