Richard Glen Collins
Company A 1/22 Infantry
KIA 11/05/66
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.
The grave of LT Richard Collins
in the cemetery at West Point
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