Richard Courtney Wallace
Lieutenant (junior grade)
PCF-89, COSDIV 15, TF 115, USNAVFORV
United States Navy
Norfolk, Virginia
May 14, 1938 to November 08, 1968
RICHARD C WALLACE is on the Wall at Panel W39, Line 39

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Richard C Wallace
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Richard C Wallace

LTJG RICHARD COURTNEY WALLACE

 
13 Oct 2002

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Photo courtesy of
Joe Muharsky's Swift Boat site

REMEMBERED

Killed in action aboard PCF-89.

Terry L. Boone
mtboone@aol.com


 

A Note from The Virtual Wall

In November 1968 PCF-89 operated out of Qui Nohn. On the night of 08 November the boat's 81mm mortar exploded, apparently as the result of an accidental double loading, killing the boat officer and two crewmen and severely wounding a third crewman. The three dead were

Note:

Naval mortars, unlike their infantry counterparts, are not fired by dropping rounds into the tube, where they strike a firing pin and are immediately launched. The naval mortar round is inserted into the muzzle, as with the infantry version, but the gunner decides when to fire and does so with a conventional trigger.


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