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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Riley Charles Oneil JR.

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RILEY CHARLES ONEIL JR

Corporal · U.S. Army

June 4, 1947 – December 15, 1967

Service record

Riley Charles Oneil JR, of Kansas City, Kansas, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on December 15, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 32E · Line 3

Position of Panel 32E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Medical Specialist (91B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
June 4, 1947
Home of record
Kansas City, Kansas (Wyandotte County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 15, 1967
Age
20
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

52 names on the Wall carry the date December 15, 1967; 27 of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 96 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 32E, Line 3

Same unit, same day

From Kansas City

All 55 names from Kansas City →

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.