RICHARD E DODD
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HONORED ON PANEL 5W, LINE 16 OF THE WALL

RICHARD EUGENE DODD

WALL NAME

RICHARD E DODD

PANEL / LINE

5W/16

DATE OF BIRTH

11/09/1941

CASUALTY PROVINCE

BINH TUY

DATE OF CASUALTY

12/31/1970

HOME OF RECORD

WISTER

COUNTY OF RECORD

LeFlore County

STATE

OK

BRANCH OF SERVICE

ARMY

RANK

SFC

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Contact Details

REMEMBRANCES

LEFT FOR RICHARD EUGENE DODD
POSTED ON 11.9.2022
POSTED BY: John.V

Thank You

Dear SFC Richard Dodd,
On This Veterans Day, I would like to thank you for your service as an Armor Reconniasse Specialist. Thanks to your service I am able to live a safe life in the United States. You died young in order to preserve the freedom of the people of the United States.
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POSTED ON 5.20.2022
POSTED BY: John Fabris

honoring you...

A butterfly lights beside us like a sunbeam
And for a brief moment its glory
and beauty belong to our world
But then it flies again
And though we wish it could have stayed...
We feel lucky to have seen it.
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POSTED ON 5.28.2018
POSTED BY: Lucy Micik

Thank You

Dear SFC Richard Dodd,
Thank you for your service as an Armor Reconnaissance Specialist. It is Memorial Day, and we remember all you who gave their all. It has been too long, and it's about time for us all to acknowledge the sacrifices of those like you who answered our nation's call. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage and faithfulness. Rest in peace with the angels
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POSTED ON 11.9.2017
POSTED BY: Dennis Wriston

I'm proud of our Vietnam Veterans

Sergeant First Class Richard Eugene Dodd, Served with E Troop, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, United States Army Vietnam.
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POSTED ON 10.26.2017

Final Mission of PSG Richard E. Dodd

PFC Roy L. Chaney, PSG Richard E. Dodd, SGT Alfredo Salazar, and SGT Dennis W. Webster were members of E Troop, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry. E Troop was based out of Di An in Binh Thuy Province, RVN. Their unit routinely conducted missions consisting of M113 armored personnel carriers and tanks which would form up in a perimeter while away from their base. From these formations daytime dismounted patrols would be launched several thousand meters into the surrounding jungle. The purpose of these patrols was to ambush NVA and Viet Cong operating in the area. The ambushes usually consisted of three Claymore mines “daisy chained” together with a trip-wire detonator. These would be left in place overnight while the patrol returned to their laager. After a night or two, a patrol would go back to the ambush site to assess damage inflicted on the enemy or retrieve the Claymores. On December 31, 1970, PFC Chaney, PSG Dodd, SGT Salazar, and SGT Webster were part of a patrol sent out to recover the ambush devices. A short time after leaving, the patrol radioed that they themselves had been ambushed. Evidently, the enemy detected the American’s Claymores and turned them against the patrol. The results were devastating. All four soldiers suffered fatal fragmentation wounds. Four other troopers behind them were spared when the steel balls fired by the mine went over their heads as they crossed through a depression in the ground. A medivac was requested, and the dead were removed from the field by helicopter. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and information provided by Wayne Meece (October 2017)]
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