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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 Hugh Julius Ronneberg.

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HUGH JULIUS RONNEBERG

Corporal · U.S. Army

December 19, 1949 – March 18, 1970

Service record

Hugh Julius Ronneberg, of Hagerstown, Maryland, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on March 18, 1970, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 12W, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 12W · Line 18

Position of Panel 12W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
Unit (as recorded)
AMERICAL DIV
Born
December 19, 1949
Home of record
Hagerstown, Maryland (Washington County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 18, 1970
Age
20
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

16 names on the Wall carry the date March 18, 1970; four of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In March 1970, 625 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 12W, Line 18

Same unit, same day

From Hagerstown

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.