Richard B. Fitzgibbon Jr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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First person killed in the Vietnam War
Date of Birth: 21-Jun-1920
Place of Birth: Stoneham, Massachusetts, United States
Date of Death: 08-Jun-1956
Profession: military personnel
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Richard B. Fitzgibbon Jr.
- Technical Sergeant Richard Bernard Fitzgibbon Jr., USAF (June 21, 1920 – June 8, 1956) was the first American to lose his life in the conflict that would later be known as the Vietnam War.
- He was murdered by another American airman and died of his wounds later on June 8, 1956.
- Through the efforts of his sister Alice Fitzgibbon Rose DelRossi, a former Stoneham, Massachusetts selectwoman, Fitzgibbon's name was added to the Vietnam War Memorial on Memorial Day in May 1999. Following in his father's footsteps, Richard B.
- Fitzgibbon III joined the United States Marine Corps and also later served in Vietnam, where he, too, was killed in September 1965.
- The Fitzgibbon deaths are one of only three amongst all US casualties in which both father and son were killed in the Vietnam War.
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