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RICHARD W PERDUE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 21, 1946 – January 30, 1968
Service recordRichard W Perdue, of Velma, Oklahoma, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 30, 1968, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 78 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 78
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)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- January 21, 1946
- Home of record
- Velma, Oklahoma (Stephens County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 30, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Khanh Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
99 names on the Wall carry the date January 30, 1968; seven of them were lost in Khanh Hoa Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
He died in Khanh Hoa Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 35E, Line 78
- DELL COLEMAN ODEGARDCorporal · January 30, 1968
- STEVEN CRAIG ODOMPrivate First Class · January 30, 1968
- ROBERT CHARLES PETERSCorporal · January 30, 1968
- DENNIS LEE PICKARDPrivate First Class · January 30, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RALPH E CLARKStaff Sergeant · Panel 35E, Line 67
- RICHARD PAUL GRAYPrivate First Class · Panel 35E, Line 71
- WILLIAM EFREN GRENNAYPrivate First Class · Panel 35E, Line 71
- MARCELLO JAMES LOFAROSpecialist Four · Panel 35E, Line 74
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.