VIETNAM ARMY SFC
FROM CHARLESTOWN, INDIANA
Picture taken of the Vietnam traveling Wall Memorial.
Panel 33 E Row 46.
Published in THE EVENING NEWS, Jeffersonville, INDIANA
January 8, 1968.
A Charlestown soldier who was making the Army his carer was killed in action in South Vietnam, according to word received Sunday by his widow from the Defense Department.
Sgt. 1-C Richard E. DeVore was fatally wounded during a combat campaign Friday, about 40 miles from Saigon.
Word of his death was received by his widow, Carol, who lives at 107 Main Street, Charlestown.
DeVore was the father of four children, Carmen, age 5, Jeff, 4; and Chris 2; and Ricky Burkes by a previous marriage.
The 34 year old soldier was attached to Company B, 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division. He Had been in the Southeast Asian Theatre of operations for the past six months.
DeVore, a native of Charlestown who attended high school there and had been in the service for 15 years and 10 months. He was employed by the Goodyear Company prior to his entrance into the Army.
He is also survived by his mother, Mrs. Annie DeVore, Charlestown; two brothers, James Robert and Dale Howard DeVore of Clarksville. Three sisters, Mrs. Doris Brandenburg, Clarksville, and Mrs Barbara Pollard and Miss Sharon DeVore of Charlestown.
From the VA Nationwide Gravesite Locator » Search Results
DE VORE, RICHARD E
SFC US ARMY
VIETNAM
DATE OF BIRTH: 05/01/1933
DATE OF DEATH: 01/05/1968
BURIED AT: SECTION G SITE 468
NEW ALBANY NATIONAL CEMETERY
1943 EKIN AVENUE NEW ALBANY, IN 47150
(812) 948-5234
He was serving with B Co, 4th Bn, 9th Infantry and was killed during a combat assault into a hot landing zone near Tonle Cham airstrip, Tay Ninh Province,
SVN.
∼KIA in Vietnam
FROM CHARLESTOWN, INDIANA
Picture taken of the Vietnam traveling Wall Memorial.
Panel 33 E Row 46.
Published in THE EVENING NEWS, Jeffersonville, INDIANA
January 8, 1968.
A Charlestown soldier who was making the Army his carer was killed in action in South Vietnam, according to word received Sunday by his widow from the Defense Department.
Sgt. 1-C Richard E. DeVore was fatally wounded during a combat campaign Friday, about 40 miles from Saigon.
Word of his death was received by his widow, Carol, who lives at 107 Main Street, Charlestown.
DeVore was the father of four children, Carmen, age 5, Jeff, 4; and Chris 2; and Ricky Burkes by a previous marriage.
The 34 year old soldier was attached to Company B, 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division. He Had been in the Southeast Asian Theatre of operations for the past six months.
DeVore, a native of Charlestown who attended high school there and had been in the service for 15 years and 10 months. He was employed by the Goodyear Company prior to his entrance into the Army.
He is also survived by his mother, Mrs. Annie DeVore, Charlestown; two brothers, James Robert and Dale Howard DeVore of Clarksville. Three sisters, Mrs. Doris Brandenburg, Clarksville, and Mrs Barbara Pollard and Miss Sharon DeVore of Charlestown.
From the VA Nationwide Gravesite Locator » Search Results
DE VORE, RICHARD E
SFC US ARMY
VIETNAM
DATE OF BIRTH: 05/01/1933
DATE OF DEATH: 01/05/1968
BURIED AT: SECTION G SITE 468
NEW ALBANY NATIONAL CEMETERY
1943 EKIN AVENUE NEW ALBANY, IN 47150
(812) 948-5234
He was serving with B Co, 4th Bn, 9th Infantry and was killed during a combat assault into a hot landing zone near Tonle Cham airstrip, Tay Ninh Province,
SVN.
∼KIA in Vietnam
VIETNAM ARMY SFC
FROM CHARLESTOWN, INDIANA
Picture taken of the Vietnam traveling Wall Memorial.
Panel 33 E Row 46.
Published in THE EVENING NEWS, Jeffersonville, INDIANA
January 8, 1968.
A Charlestown soldier who was making the Army his carer was killed in action in South Vietnam, according to word received Sunday by his widow from the Defense Department.
Sgt. 1-C Richard E. DeVore was fatally wounded during a combat campaign Friday, about 40 miles from Saigon.
Word of his death was received by his widow, Carol, who lives at 107 Main Street, Charlestown.
DeVore was the father of four children, Carmen, age 5, Jeff, 4; and Chris 2; and Ricky Burkes by a previous marriage.
The 34 year old soldier was attached to Company B, 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division. He Had been in the Southeast Asian Theatre of operations for the past six months.
DeVore, a native of Charlestown who attended high school there and had been in the service for 15 years and 10 months. He was employed by the Goodyear Company prior to his entrance into the Army.
He is also survived by his mother, Mrs. Annie DeVore, Charlestown; two brothers, James Robert and Dale Howard DeVore of Clarksville. Three sisters, Mrs. Doris Brandenburg, Clarksville, and Mrs Barbara Pollard and Miss Sharon DeVore of Charlestown.
From the VA Nationwide Gravesite Locator » Search Results
DE VORE, RICHARD E
SFC US ARMY
VIETNAM
DATE OF BIRTH: 05/01/1933
DATE OF DEATH: 01/05/1968
BURIED AT: SECTION G SITE 468
NEW ALBANY NATIONAL CEMETERY
1943 EKIN AVENUE NEW ALBANY, IN 47150
(812) 948-5234
He was serving with B Co, 4th Bn, 9th Infantry and was killed during a combat assault into a hot landing zone near Tonle Cham airstrip, Tay Ninh Province,
SVN.
∼KIA in Vietnam
FROM CHARLESTOWN, INDIANA
Picture taken of the Vietnam traveling Wall Memorial.
Panel 33 E Row 46.
Published in THE EVENING NEWS, Jeffersonville, INDIANA
January 8, 1968.
A Charlestown soldier who was making the Army his carer was killed in action in South Vietnam, according to word received Sunday by his widow from the Defense Department.
Sgt. 1-C Richard E. DeVore was fatally wounded during a combat campaign Friday, about 40 miles from Saigon.
Word of his death was received by his widow, Carol, who lives at 107 Main Street, Charlestown.
DeVore was the father of four children, Carmen, age 5, Jeff, 4; and Chris 2; and Ricky Burkes by a previous marriage.
The 34 year old soldier was attached to Company B, 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division. He Had been in the Southeast Asian Theatre of operations for the past six months.
DeVore, a native of Charlestown who attended high school there and had been in the service for 15 years and 10 months. He was employed by the Goodyear Company prior to his entrance into the Army.
He is also survived by his mother, Mrs. Annie DeVore, Charlestown; two brothers, James Robert and Dale Howard DeVore of Clarksville. Three sisters, Mrs. Doris Brandenburg, Clarksville, and Mrs Barbara Pollard and Miss Sharon DeVore of Charlestown.
From the VA Nationwide Gravesite Locator » Search Results
DE VORE, RICHARD E
SFC US ARMY
VIETNAM
DATE OF BIRTH: 05/01/1933
DATE OF DEATH: 01/05/1968
BURIED AT: SECTION G SITE 468
NEW ALBANY NATIONAL CEMETERY
1943 EKIN AVENUE NEW ALBANY, IN 47150
(812) 948-5234
He was serving with B Co, 4th Bn, 9th Infantry and was killed during a combat assault into a hot landing zone near Tonle Cham airstrip, Tay Ninh Province,
SVN.
∼KIA in Vietnam
