The Wall › Panel 15W › Iowa › Ricky Maurice Glaspey
RICKY MAURICE GLASPEY
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 6, 1949 – December 26, 1969
Service recordRicky Maurice Glaspey, of Mason City, Iowa, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 26, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 93 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15W · Line 93
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- January 6, 1949
- Home of record
- Mason City, Iowa (Cerro Gordo County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 26, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date December 26, 1969; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In December 1969, 509 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 15W, Line 93
- GENE THOMAS WRIGHTMajor · December 19, 1969
- DAVID BICKNEL BOWLINGFirst Lieutenant · December 26, 1969
- ROGER RAY BROWNSpecialist Four · December 26, 1969
- TERRY BROOKS DYERCorporal · December 26, 1969
- GLYNN BYRON HOLLEYAirman First Class · December 26, 1969
From Mason City
- NICKOLAS RAY KOEHLERLance Corporal · May 8, 1965
- JACK LLEWELLYN JAMESPrivate First Class · February 19, 1966
- GLENN RAYMOND MORRISON JRLieutenant Colonel · October 26, 1966
- JOHN ELLSWORTH QUAMPrivate First Class · February 16, 1967
- JAMES WILLIAM WESTPrivate First Class · December 16, 1967
- JOHN HOLGER WRISBERG IIISpecialist Four · January 16, 1968
- RICHARD LEE CULLENFirst Lieutenant · February 2, 1968
- LLOYD HARMSPrivate First Class · August 18, 1968
- GEORGE JOHNSONCorporal · August 25, 1968
- MICHAEL ALLEN SCHROEDERPrivate First Class · May 11, 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.