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WILLIAM H RICHARDSON JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 15, 1949 – November 10, 1967
Service recordWilliam H Richardson JR, of Terre Haute, Indiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 10, 1967, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 65 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29E · Line 65
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- January 15, 1949
- Home of record
- Terre Haute, Indiana (Vigo County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 10, 1967
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date November 10, 1967; eight of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 142 of its members that month.
He died in Kon Tum Province while the Battle of Đắk Tô was under way. Around Đắk Tô in the Central Highlands (3–23 November 1967), the 4th Infantry Division and the 173rd Airborne Brigade fought North Vietnamese regiments for the hills along the border, ending with the assault on Hill 875 on Thanksgiving Day. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 29E, Line 65
- RAYMOND HOWARD CHASE JRWarrant Officer 1 · November 10, 1967
- KELLY FRANCIS COOKColonel · November 10, 1967
- JAMES THOMAS COONPrivate First Class · November 10, 1967
- MICHAEL AUGUST HOGLUNDSergeant · November 10, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JERRY DON JONESPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 67
- NORMAN JAMES LIVINGSTONPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 68
- BERNHARDT WILLIAM MILLERPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 68
- WILLIAM TONY BROCKPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 69
- JIMMIE CARL WALLACESpecialist Five · Panel 29E, Line 69
From Terre Haute
- EUGENE RUSSELL FOWLERCaptain · April 27, 1965
- PAUL LOUIS LEMAYSergeant · October 18, 1965
- HERMAN RICHARD MENEELYPrivate First Class · June 11, 1966
- ROBERT RAY MYLESStaff Sergeant · July 25, 1966
- JAMES WALTER SIMSStaff Sergeant · September 9, 1966
- PEARL WAYNE MYERSPrivate First Class · March 16, 1967
- QUENTIN RIPPETOE BEECHERChief Warrant Officer 3 · June 11, 1967
- JAMES EDWARD GISHCorporal · October 25, 1967
- STEPHEN PERRY JONESSergeant · October 27, 1967
- JACK JOSEPH KUPFERERPrivate First Class · January 19, 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.