The Wall › Panel 17W › Wisconsin › Arnold Raymond Schuh
ARNOLD RAYMOND SCHUH
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 17, 1949 – October 20, 1969
Service recordArnold Raymond Schuh, of Kaukauna, Wisconsin, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 20, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 98 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17W · Line 98
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- January 17, 1949
- Home of record
- Kaukauna, Wisconsin (Outagamie County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 20, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date October 20, 1969; two of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 17W, Line 98
- JOSE ESPIRIDION ORTIZPrivate First Class · October 20, 1969
- LARRY STERL POLINGPrivate First Class · October 20, 1969
- STANLEY DENNIS ROSSSpecialist Four · October 20, 1969
- MICHAEL RAY SAMPLESpecialist Four · October 20, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JACK CALAMIASergeant · Panel 17W, Line 94
From Kaukauna
- THOMAS WILLIAM OTTECorporal · February 3, 1968
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.