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ERIC WARD ZOLLER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 4, 1944 – January 22, 1967
Service recordEric Ward Zoller, of Malibu, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 22, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 68 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14E · Line 68
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. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- August 4, 1944
- Home of record
- Malibu, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 22, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
14 names on the Wall carry the date January 22, 1967; three of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương Province while Operation Cedar Falls was under way. Operation Cedar Falls (8–26 January 1967) sent some 30,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops into the “Iron Triangle” northwest of Saigon to destroy Viet Cong base areas and tunnels. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 14E, Line 68
- DONALD ELTON SHOEMAKERPrivate First Class · January 22, 1967
- ROY VON WELLSPetty Officer First Class · January 22, 1967
- ANTONIO GILBERTO YESCASSpecialist Four · January 22, 1967
- TERRY LEE BRADENSeaman · January 23, 1967
Same unit, same day
- LEWIS CARL ANDERSONSpecialist Four · Panel 14E, Line 66
- RONALD LYNN PENDERGISTCorporal · Panel 14E, Line 67
From Malibu
- GARY LEE JOHNSONSpecialist Four · February 18, 1971
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.