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RICHARD WILLIAM CASEY
Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 10, 1948 – November 27, 1968
Service recordRichard William Casey, of Los Altos, California, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 27, 1968, in Cambodia, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 38W, Line 71 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38W · Line 71
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- May 10, 1948
- Home of record
- Los Altos, California (Santa Clara County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 27, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Country
- Cambodia
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
61 names on the Wall carry the date November 27, 1968. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
The record places this loss in Cambodia, outside South Vietnam.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 38W, Line 71
- JAMES GREGORY BRADYSpecialist Four · November 27, 1968
- JOHN WILLIAM BRINKMEYERWarrant Officer 1 · November 27, 1968
- JOHN CHARLES BROWNPrivate First Class · November 27, 1968
- DAVID ALTON BRYANTCorporal · November 27, 1968
From Los Altos
- MICHAEL CHARLES DELACYCorporal · November 16, 1965
- DAVID CHARLES BROSTROMLieutenant (junior grade) · August 11, 1966
- THOMAS G DERRICKSON IILieutenant Colonel · October 12, 1967
- ROBERT FRANCIS KLINE JRCorporal · March 30, 1968
- VICTOR CHARLES NAVONE JRSpecialist Four · February 11, 1969
- JAMES RANDOLPH REGNOLDSPrivate First Class · March 21, 1969
- DANIEL JEFFREY SMITHSpecialist Four · November 10, 1969
- JOSEPH LESTER HARTSpecialist Four · March 29, 1970
- JAMES ALLYN DUENSINGLieutenant · January 30, 1973
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.