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RICHARD NICHOL DEANGELIS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 11, 1936 – October 16, 1968
Service recordRichard Nichol Deangelis, of Wallingford, Connecticut, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 16, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 41W, Line 66 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41W · Line 66
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- January 11, 1936
- Home of record
- Wallingford, Connecticut (New Haven County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 16, 1968
- Age
- 32
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
11 names on the Wall carry the date October 16, 1968; two of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 62 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 41W, Line 66
- JAMES ALLEN CROWLEY IIFirst Lieutenant · October 16, 1968
- JERRY ALLEN DILLARDSpecialist Four · October 16, 1968
- GEORGE BARKER HAMILTONFirst Lieutenant · October 16, 1968
- DAVID JAMES LEVIERPrivate First Class · October 16, 1968
From Wallingford
- EDWARD ROBERT DORSEYPetty Officer Third Class · July 29, 1967
- MARTIN WEIGNER ANDERSENMajor · August 19, 1967
- TIMOTHY WAYNE KELLERSpecialist Four · May 9, 1968
- GENE EDWARD FECTEAUPrivate · July 11, 1968
- ROBERT LEO MIGLIERINASergeant · October 10, 1968
- RENALD LUDGER GAGNEPrivate First Class · February 2, 1969
- WILLIAM CHARLES FENTON JRSpecialist Four · March 26, 1969
- RICHARD ARNO JOHNSON JRPrivate First Class · August 10, 1969
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.