JACK LEE RIGHTMYER

Company C 1/22 Infantry

4th Infantry Division

KIA 02/16/1969

Age: 20
Race: Caucasian
Sex: Male
Date of Birth Aug 19, 1948
From: ALLENTOWN, PA
Religion: ROMAN CATHOLIC
Marital Status: Single

SP4 - E4 - Army - Selective Service
4th Infantry Division
MOS: 11B2P: Infantryman (Airborne Qualified)
Length of service 1 years
His tour began on Jul 13, 1968
Casualty was on Feb 16, 1969
In KONTUM, SOUTH VIETNAM
HOSTILE, HELICOPTER - NONCREW
AIR LOSS, CRASH ON LAND
Body was recovered

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Jack Rightmyer is listed in Army records as being assigned to 1/22 Infantry, but attached to
K Company 75th Rangers at the time of his death. He was killed when the aircraft (UH-1D 66-16091)
in which he was a passenger, was hit by hostile ground fire, crashed and burned, during a LRRP insertion
at grid reference ZA055956, approximately 3 kilometers northeast of Polei Kleng airfield.

SP4 Jack Rightmyer's decorations

Jack Rightmyer on left, Dick Snow on right in Vietnam
C Co 1/22 Infantry

Photos from Dick Snow via Fred Childs

Burial:
Laurel Cemetery
Whitehall
Lehigh County
Pennsylvania, USA

Grave marker for Jack Rightmyer

Photo by Catherine Rohrbach from the Find A Grave website

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