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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Walter L Rickard.

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WALTER L RICKARD

Private First Class · U.S. Army

September 10, 1945 – February 10, 1965

Service record

Walter L Rickard, of Lahaina, Hawaii, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 10, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 90 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 1E · Line 90

Position of Panel 1E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
Born
September 10, 1945
Home of record
Lahaina, Hawaii (Maui County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 10, 1965
Age
19
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

23 names on the Wall carry the date February 10, 1965. In February 1965, 54 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 1E, Line 90

From Lahaina

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.