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BERNARD HERBERT PLASSMEYER
First Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps
May 5, 1945 – September 11, 1970
Service recordBernard Herbert Plassmeyer, of Freeburg, Missouri, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He was lost on September 11, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 7W, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 7W · Line 57
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.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1STLT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Pilot Vma A-4 Qualified (I) (7501)
- Unit (as recorded)
- VMA 311 MAG 11 1 MAW
- Born
- May 5, 1945
- Home of record
- Freeburg, Missouri (Osage County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- September 11, 1970
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
15 names on the Wall carry the date September 11, 1970; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In September 1970, 364 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 7W, Line 57
- LONNIE MELROE SWINSONMaster Sergeant · September 11, 1970
- JOHN WAYNE CANNONPrivate First Class · September 12, 1970
- DEVON MARDIC ENMANSergeant · September 12, 1970
- DEAN WILLIAM HARDMANCorporal · September 12, 1970
From Freeburg
- PAUL ALFRED HASENBECKStaff Sergeant · April 21, 1967
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.