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RICKY LEE NULL
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 5, 1949 – April 20, 1968
Service recordRicky Lee Null, of Lemoyne, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 20, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 51E, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 51E · Line 11
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- March 5, 1949
- Home of record
- Lemoyne, Pennsylvania (Cumberland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 20, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date April 20, 1968; five of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 51E, Line 11
- ROBERT JOSEPH NOTOPrivate First Class · April 20, 1968
- TIMOTHY JOHN OKEEFEPrivate · April 20, 1968
- MICHAEL DAVID PADILLALance Corporal · April 20, 1968
- JAMES EDWARD PANTIERPrivate · April 20, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT WAYNE GLIDDENPrivate First Class · Panel 51E, Line 6
- EDWARD DELBERT ULMANCorporal · Panel 51E, Line 14
From Lemoyne
- RICHARD HAUSE SWEGERSergeant First Class · January 2, 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.