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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Gerald R Rolf.

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GERALD R ROLF

Private First Class · U.S. Army

November 3, 1947 – June 28, 1966

Service record

Gerald R Rolf, of Cincinnati, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 28, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 105 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 8E · Line 105

Position of Panel 8E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
November 3, 1947
Home of record
Cincinnati, Ohio (Hamilton County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 28, 1966
Age
18
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

19 names on the Wall carry the date June 28, 1966. In June 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 73 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 8E, Line 105

Same unit, same day

From Cincinnati

All 226 names from Cincinnati →

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.