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RICHARD PATRICK BLANTON
Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
May 13, 1948 – April 30, 1969
Service recordRichard Patrick Blanton, of Greenwood, Indiana, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 30, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 81 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26W · Line 81
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
- Assaultman (0351)
- Born
- May 13, 1948
- Home of record
- Greenwood, Indiana (Johnson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 30, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date April 30, 1969; 22 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 26W, Line 81
- ROBERT HYATT WESCOTT JRSergeant First Class · April 29, 1969
- FRANK CARL AMBROSIOSpecialist Four · April 30, 1969
- LAWRENCE EDWARD BAUERCorporal · April 30, 1969
- WALTER PAUL BEMPrivate First Class · April 30, 1969
From Greenwood
- WILLIAM JAMES KARASCorporal · July 31, 1969
- ROBERT STEPHEN RAINESStaff Sergeant · December 2, 1969
- LARRY JAMES RIGNEYPrivate First Class · May 19, 1970
- ROBERT WAYNE VEHLINGCaptain · January 11, 1972
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.