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RICKEY EUGENE SWANEY
Private First Class · U.S. Army
September 24, 1947 – August 14, 1969
Service recordRickey Eugene Swaney, of Grand Junction, Iowa, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 14, 1969, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 19W, Line 42 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19W · Line 42
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- September 24, 1947
- Home of record
- Grand Junction, Iowa (Greene County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 14, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date August 14, 1969; three of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 29 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 19W, Line 42
- STEPHEN JUSTENE TORBETTSergeant · August 14, 1969
- GIL STEVENS WILFONGCorporal · August 14, 1969
- RICHARD MARVIN WISESergeant · August 14, 1969
- HUMBERTO ROBLES HERNANDEZCaptain · August 15, 1969
Same unit, same day
- KENNETH GLEN GOODNESSPrivate First Class · Panel 19W, Line 38
- JOHN STANLEY HALLPrivate First Class · Panel 19W, Line 38
- MICHAEL LESTER BRUNDAGESpecialist Four · Panel 19W, Line 39
From Grand Junction
- ROLLIN DUANE DAVISSpecialist Four · May 4, 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.