THE WALL OF FACES

Your sacrifice is not forgotten.

Semper Fi, Marine

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. Rest in eternal peace.

Private First Class Richard Graham Allen, Served with Company H, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, Third Marine Amphibious Force.

Private First Class Richard Graham Allen was the son of Sgt 1/C Ronald I. Allen of HQ Co. USAG-SAS Engineer Section on active duty and Margaret M. Lutes of Long Beach, CA. He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps on February 26, 1964 in Los Angeles, CA. PFC Allen was a Marine Rifleman, age 19, born January 28, 1947, from Long Beach, CA. PFC Allen arrived in Vietnam with Hotel Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division (Rein), III MAF, FMFPac. On March 4, Operation UTAH was launched under the command of Task Force Delta in the Son Thinh District of Quang Ngai Province where the Marines would encounter elements of the 21st NVA Regiment. On D-day 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines conducted a helicopter assault near the Chau Ngai complex of villages and was heavily engaged with a regiment of NVA regulars near Hill 50 and Hill 35. Elements of F Company and H Company were overrun but were able to recover and consolidate to a night position near Chau Ngai 4. By the end of D-Day, 2/7 counted 94 enemy KIA and estimated 63 WIA. Friendly losses were 44 KIA and 84 WIA. An additional 20+ persons received minor wounds and were not evacuated. The next day, 5 March, the battle moved to the North and 2/7 cleaned up the battlefields from the day before, recovering the dead, and clearing out caves and bunkers.On March 4, 1966, PFC Allen was killed in action dying outright from enemy small arms fire. PFC Allen is interred at Sunnyside Cemetery, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California and is honored on the Vietnam Memorial on Panel 05E, Line 098.

DEAR PFC ALLEN.
PLEASE, SOMEONE, POST A PHOTO OF HIM. HE DESERVES TO BE REMEMBERED, NOT JUST A NAME ON A WALL.
THANK YOU FOR BEING A MARINE GRUNT.
REST IN PEACE AND SEMPER FI.