Cartwright, Richard Cortez
Navy Storekeeper 1

Richard Cortez Cartwright, age 28, from Jamestown, Ohio, Greene county.

Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Greenview High

Date of death: Friday, November 1, 1968
Death details: Among 23 American sailors killed aboard the LST Westchester County when it was ripped open by an enemy mine as she swung at anchor in the My Tho River near Saigon.
Cemetery: Silvercreek, Jamestown

Source: National Archives, virtualwall.org, Xenia Daily Gazette (1968)