RANGERS 2 Finley, Dickie Waine

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Finley ​

• FORENAME

Dickie Waine ​

• UNIT

Company E,58th Infantry (LRP) ​

• RANK

Private First Class ​

• NUMBER

490506378​

• DATE OF DEATH

21st October 1968 ​

• AGE

21 ​

• GRAVESITE

Honolulu Memorial Courts of the Missing​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 29.6.1947 East Prairie,Missouri​

father Cedric Merlin Finley (1924-1967)​

mother Geneva Laverne (nee George) Bush (1924-1997)​

resided Sweet Springs,Missouri​

enlisted 02.11.1967​

entered service Sweet Springs,Missouri​

single​

tour started 01.05.1968​

MIA Darlac Province,South Vietnam​

body not recovered ​

Vietnam Veterans Memorial,Washington,D.C. Panel 40W Line 11 ​

memorial Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, USA. Section MA, Site 10​

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On October 21, 1968, he was the team leader of a five man Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol near Ban Me Thuot, South Vietnam. When they ran out of ammunition a rescue helicopter arrived but had to leave Staff Sergeant Finley behind.​