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RICKY DAVID MAUNEY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 1, 1948 – April 10, 1969
Service recordRicky David Mauney, of Dallas, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 10, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 51
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
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- June 1, 1948
- Home of record
- Dallas, North Carolina (Gaston County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 10, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date April 10, 1969; three of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 36 of its members that month.
Read the history
Also on Panel 27W, Line 51
- STEVEN LEE MCFARLANDPrivate First Class · April 10, 1969
- JOHN LOUIS MORGAN JRCorporal · April 10, 1969
- JOHN GORDON NURSESergeant · April 10, 1969
- STANLEY JOHN OTTMARSergeant · April 10, 1969
From Dallas
- RONALD LEE DAVISLance Corporal · August 24, 1965
- ROY NEIL BURRISLance Corporal · February 27, 1968
- DONALD BLAIR PAYSOURCorporal · April 4, 1968
- SHERMAN ROBERT FIELDS JRCorporal · May 17, 1968
- JERRY LEROY ADDISStaff Sergeant · June 19, 1968
- JOHNNY LEE MEEKSSergeant · August 28, 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.