Richard Collins

Richard Glen Collins

Company A 1/22 Infantry

KIA 11/05/66

Photo courtesy of Michael G. Arden, USMA Library, West Point

LT Richard Collins in Vietnam at 3-Tango firebase 1966
Possibly the last picture ever taken of him

Army - 1LT - O2

Age: 23
Race: Caucasian
Sex: Male
Date of Birth Jan 15, 1943
From: ALTADENA, CA
Religion: EPISCOPAL, ANGLICAN
Marital Status: Married

1LT - O2 - Army - Regular

Length of service 1 years
His tour began on Jul 21, 1966
Casualty was on Nov 5, 1966
In , SOUTH VIETNAM
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
GUN, SMALL ARMS FIRE
Body was recovered

LT Richard Collins on board the USAT General Nelson Walker, heading for Vietnam 1966

Photo courtesy of Loretta and Lindley Hubbard

On November 5, 1966, while participating in Operation Paul Revere IV, with Company A 1/22 Infantry,
LT Richard Collins was killed by small arms fire from a dug in North Vietnamese unit.
A graduate of West Point Class of 1965, LT Collins became the first officer of 1st Battalion 22nd Infantry
killed in action in Vietnam, and at the same time the first officer from the 4th Infantry Division
killed in action in Vietnam.

His name is engraved on Panel 12E line 27 of the Vietnam Memorial.

Richard Collins' offfical listing in The Howtizer, USMA yearbook 1965

Courtesy of Michael G. Arden, USMA Library, West Point

The grave of LT Richard Collins
in the cemetery at West Point

Glen Collins, the father of Richard Collins.

Glen Collins, a Naval Aviator, was Killed In Action in WW2.

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