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RICKY GENE INLOW
Sergeant · U.S. Army
March 27, 1949 – April 9, 1968
Service recordRicky Gene Inlow, of Wilmington, Ohio, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 9, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 49E, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49E · Line 2
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- March 27, 1949
- Home of record
- Wilmington, Ohio (Clinton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 9, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date April 9, 1968; eight of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 189 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 49E, Line 2
- GERALD STEVEN HANSENPrivate First Class · April 9, 1968
- KENNETH ALLEN HARDINStaff Sergeant · April 9, 1968
- BILLY LEE JACKSONStaff Sergeant · April 9, 1968
- LARRY BARNEY JENKINSPrivate First Class · April 9, 1968
Same unit, same day
- PATRICK CHARLES COUGHLINPrivate First Class · Panel 48E, Line 57
- ROLAND EDROY MOORESergeant · Panel 49E, Line 4
- JOSEPH RONALD PAULETTESergeant · Panel 49E, Line 5
- DOUGLAS GERALD THOMPSONPrivate First Class · Panel 49E, Line 6
- DAVID FREDERICK WAGNERPrivate First Class · Panel 49E, Line 6
From Wilmington
- RALPH HOWARD LIVESAYPrivate First Class · April 15, 1966
- LARRY ALLEN FAULKNERCorporal · May 17, 1967
- DAVID LYNN ANDREWSLance Corporal · August 29, 1968
- DAVID JAMES CAMPBELLPrivate First Class · August 22, 1970
- ROBERT LESTER LONGWarrant Officer 1 · April 29, 1971
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.