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RICHARD WAYNE ORSUND
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 19, 1947 – March 27, 1968
Service recordRichard Wayne Orsund, of Grafton, North Dakota, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 27, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 48
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- July 19, 1947
- Home of record
- Grafton, North Dakota (Walsh County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 27, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date March 27, 1968; five of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương 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 46E, Line 48
- PAUL JAMES MOODYLance Corporal · March 27, 1968
- CARTER LEE MOORECorporal · March 27, 1968
- BERNIE JACK MOSLEYHospitalman · March 27, 1968
- ROGER WAYNE OVERSTREETCorporal · March 27, 1968
From Grafton
- DAVID JOHN LATRAILLESpecialist Four · March 6, 1968
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.