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RICHARD ROOSEVELT BANKS
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
December 14, 1934 – June 30, 1966
Service recordRichard Roosevelt Banks, of Lexington, North Carolina, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 30, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 110 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 8E · Line 110
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- December 14, 1934
- Home of record
- Lexington, North Carolina (Davidson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 30, 1966
- Age
- 31
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date June 30, 1966. In June 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 8E, Line 110
- JAMES PATRICK ODONNELLSergeant · January 25, 1966
- FRANCIS GEORGE STEVENSPrivate First Class · June 29, 1966
- PAUL JOSEPH SURETTEPrivate First Class · June 29, 1966
- ROY DEE BAILEYSergeant · June 30, 1966
- DAVID ELROY BAUNSpecialist Four · June 30, 1966
From Lexington
- HAROLD DANIEL MCCARNCaptain · November 17, 1965
- ROBERT FRANKLIN MELTON JRSpecialist Four · January 15, 1967
- JACOB H CUNNINGHAM IIISpecialist Four · February 14, 1967
- WILLIAM FORDSergeant First Class · October 23, 1967
- SAMUEL F HOLLIFIELD JRPrivate First Class · January 7, 1968
- JIMMY CARROLL HESTERCorporal · December 24, 1968
- RONALD FRED LEONARDSpecialist Four · March 20, 1970
- ANDREW JACKSON NEWCOMBECorporal · February 14, 1971
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.