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RICHARD PALMER GATES
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 27, 1944 – February 13, 1969
Service recordRichard Palmer Gates, of Johnstown, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 13, 1969, in Lam Dong Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 32W, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32W · 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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- January 27, 1944
- Home of record
- Johnstown, New York (Fulton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 13, 1969
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Lam Dong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date February 13, 1969; he was the only one lost in Lam Dong Province that day. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 32W, Line 26
- KEVIN LLOYD DAYPrivate First Class · February 13, 1969
- PHILIP ROBERT FRANKIEWICZCorporal · February 13, 1969
- DAVID ALLEN HILLPrivate First Class · February 13, 1969
- RICHARD MICHAEL HILTSergeant · February 13, 1969
From Johnstown
- ORSON HOWARD CASECorporal · July 15, 1966
- RALPH JAMES LUNDTechnical Sergeant · September 6, 1968
- ROBERT WAYNE COONSSergeant · May 19, 1970
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.