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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Richard Morris Seymore.

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RICHARD MORRIS SEYMORE

Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

June 6, 1950 – August 7, 1970

Service record

Richard Morris Seymore, of Princeton, Kentucky, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 7, 1970, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 8W, Line 91 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 8W · Line 91

Position of Panel 8W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Marine Corps
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Supply Man, Manual Account (3071)
Born
June 6, 1950
Home of record
Princeton, Kentucky (Caldwell County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 7, 1970
Age
20
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

14 names on the Wall carry the date August 7, 1970; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In August 1970, 452 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 8W, Line 91

From Princeton

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.