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JAN ALAN ULMER
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
May 16, 1943 – April 18, 1968
Service recordJan Alan Ulmer, of Brattleboro, Vermont, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 18, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 50E, Line 42 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 50E · Line 42
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- May 16, 1943
- Home of record
- Brattleboro, Vermont (Windham County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 18, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date April 18, 1968; two of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 50E, Line 42
- GARY EDWARD RUSHASpecialist Four · April 18, 1968
- DONALD EUGENE SMRTNIKSergeant · April 18, 1968
- PAUL MATTHEW SPENCERLance Corporal · April 18, 1968
- ROBERT KITTRIDGE VARICKSpecialist Four · April 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- STEFAN MAZAKSergeant First Class · Panel 50E, Line 40
From Brattleboro
- STANLEY MARTIN BAKERSecond Lieutenant · May 20, 1967
- PAUL RICHARD DARTTSpecialist Four · October 24, 1968
- JOHN CHARLES BLAKEPetty Officer Third Class · March 21, 1970
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.