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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 Robert Smith.

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RICHARD ROBERT SMITH

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

October 19, 1946 – August 16, 1967

Service record

Richard Robert Smith, of Hopewell Junction, New York, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 16, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 25E · Line 2

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
M60a1 Tank Crewman (1811)
Born
October 19, 1946
Home of record
Hopewell Junction, New York (Dutchess County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 16, 1967
Age
20
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

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25 names on the Wall carry the date August 16, 1967; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 25E, Line 2

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.