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RICHARD WAYNE SANDERS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 26, 1944 – October 1, 1968
Service recordRichard Wayne Sanders, of Goshen, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 1, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 42W, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42W · Line 59
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
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- D CO 1 BN 46 INF 198 LIB
- Born
- August 26, 1944
- Home of record
- Goshen, Ohio (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 1, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
44 names on the Wall carry the date October 1, 1968; 17 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 42W, Line 59
- KENNETH MICHAEL PLAVCANSpecialist Four · October 1, 1968
- RONALD EDWARD POCHRONSpecialist Five · October 1, 1968
- JOHN ALEX RAUSCHSergeant · October 1, 1968
- JAMES ROBERT RONEPrivate First Class · October 1, 1968
From Goshen
- BRUCE FRANKLIN GRIFFINPrivate First Class · May 21, 1966
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.