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RICKY GENE HARRISON
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
February 21, 1950 – August 23, 1968
Service recordRicky Gene Harrison, of Thomaston, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 23, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 47W, Line 44 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47W · Line 44
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- February 21, 1950
- Home of record
- Thomaston, Georgia (Upson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 23, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
111 names on the Wall carry the date August 23, 1968; 51 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 47W, Line 44
- BILLY DEAN HARRISSpecialist Four · August 23, 1968
- PATRICK SHAWN HEDERMANPrivate First Class · August 23, 1968
- WALTER MAURICE HENRYPrivate First Class · August 23, 1968
- EUGENE JOHN HILL JRPrivate First Class · August 23, 1968
From Thomaston
- PERRY LEE HARRISPrivate First Class · January 29, 1967
- JIMMY LEE BUSSEYPrivate First Class · February 6, 1967
- DAVID ADOLPHUS TAYLORPrivate First Class · March 5, 1967
- EUGENE OLIVER OWENBYCorporal · May 19, 1967
- THURLO MERIDA MCCLURECorporal · August 16, 1967
- GEORGE RONALD FULLERCorporal · February 19, 1968
- JOSEPH LAMAR JORDANPrivate First Class · April 3, 1968
- THOMAS GERALD DICKERSONSpecialist Four · November 23, 1968
- ROY ARNOLD CARROLLSpecialist Four · April 22, 1969
- BILL JAKE DUPREESpecialist Five · April 27, 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.