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RICHARD WAYNE BANNISTER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
July 27, 1948 – December 27, 1967
Service recordRichard Wayne Bannister, of Erwin, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 27, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 68 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32E · Line 68
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- July 27, 1948
- Home of record
- Erwin, Tennessee (Unicoi County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 27, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
88 names on the Wall carry the date December 27, 1967; 35 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 32E, Line 68
- DONALD LEE APPLEGATEPrivate First Class · December 27, 1967
- JOHN ROBERT ARRINGTONPrivate First Class · December 27, 1967
- LAWRENCE MERRIDITH BARNESLance Corporal · December 27, 1967
- GEORGE BINKOPrivate First Class · December 27, 1967
From Erwin
- DOUGLAS LEE JONESFirst Lieutenant · October 12, 1966
- DAVID LEE EDNEYSpecialist Four · March 13, 1968
- ALLEN EUGENE WHITELance Corporal · November 30, 1968
- JAMES JAY BRITTCorporal · December 31, 1968
- DONALD LEE GRUBBPrivate First Class · July 8, 1969
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.