THE WALL OF FACES

“Semper Fi” from another
Pal-Mac grunt!

Some may think you are forgotten
Though on earth you are no more
But in our memory you are with us
As you always were before….

Dear PFC Richard Main, Thank you for your service as a Self-Propelled Artillery Repairer/Tech. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. Time passes quickly. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage, guidance and faithfulness. Rest in peace with the angels.

"Marine Dies in Viet Nam" - PFC Richard H. Mains obituary

PFC Richard H. Main was a Self-Propelled Artillery mechanic serving with 1st Platoon, C Company, 3rd Antitank Battalion, 3rd Marine Division. PFC Main’s unit, “Charlie” Company, maintained a service area next to an Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) training camp on the backside of Hill 327 in Quang Nam Province, RVN. On February 4, 1966, Main asked for permission to go out with some other Marines in a M37 ¾-ton personnel carrier (PC) and help them repair a broken down M50A1 Ontos armored tracked anti-tank vehicle. While enroute to the disabled Ontos, their PC went off the road into a flooded rice paddy. Main died after he was pinned in the overturned PC and drowned. There were differing accounts why the PC went into the paddy. It was reported to some Charlie Company mechanics that the vehicle hit a mine causing the driver to lose control and go off the road. This version seemed reasonable when the PC was returned to the service yard with extensive passenger side front-wheel damage. However, a casualty report issued by the Marine Corps stated that a bolt of lightning struck near the vehicle causing the truck to go out of control and turn over in the rice paddy. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and information provided by Roland R. Lataille (October 2019)]