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RICHARD WILLIAM PELLETIER
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
December 16, 1949 – March 24, 1969
Service recordRichard William Pelletier, of Greenville, New Hampshire, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 24, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 30
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- December 16, 1949
- Home of record
- Greenville, New Hampshire (Hillsborough County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 24, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date March 24, 1969; two of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 28W, Line 30
- GERALD RAYMOND SCHIESLCorporal · March 24, 1969
- JOSEPH FRANCIS SCHIMPFCorporal · March 24, 1969
- MICHAEL ANGEL TORRESLance Corporal · March 24, 1969
- BENJAMIN ROBERT TURIANOCorporal · March 24, 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.