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TIMOTHY JOSEPH RIZZARDINI
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 22, 1944 – May 18, 1968
Service recordTimothy Joseph Rizzardini, of Ridgecrest, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 18, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 62E, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 62E · Line 22
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- October 22, 1944
- Home of record
- Ridgecrest, California (Kern County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 18, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
59 names on the Wall carry the date May 18, 1968; six of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 71 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 62E, Line 22
- TOMMY EMERSON GISTMajor · May 18, 1968
- DAVID ESEQUIEL PADILLALance Corporal · May 18, 1968
- HAROLD DOUGLAS PEPPERSPrivate First Class · May 18, 1968
- JERRY LEON PETTYSergeant · May 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- HAROLD DOUGLAS PEPPERSPrivate First Class · Panel 62E, Line 22
From Ridgecrest
- RALPH EUGENE FOULKS JRLieutenant · January 5, 1968
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.