McKown, Richard E.
Marine Lance corporal

Richard E. McKown, age 24, from Middlesex County Malden, Massachusetts .

Parents: Jason C. McKown

Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Malden High (1969), Wentworth Institute

Date of death: Friday, September 24, 1965
Death details: Killed in Japan in a dawn fire that destroyed a two-story communication building that was engaged in classified work relaying messages between ships of the U.S. Seventh Fleet in water off Vietnam and land installations.

Source: Associated Press (1965), Boston Globe (1965)