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JERALD LEE PINNEKER
Lieutenant (junior grade) · U.S. Navy
September 29, 1940 – March 20, 1966
Service recordJerald Lee Pinneker, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, served as a Lieutenant (junior grade) in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 20, 1966, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6E · Line 26
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. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant (junior grade) (LTJG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1310)
- Born
- September 29, 1940
- Home of record
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Milwaukee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 20, 1966
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date March 20, 1966; he was the only one lost in Định Tường Province that day. In March 1966, 564 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 6E, Line 26
- CLIFFORD ABDUL MCKENNANPrivate First Class · March 20, 1966
- JOHN HENRY SAVAGEAUPrivate First Class · March 20, 1966
- GERALD BERNARD SCHMIDTLance Corporal · March 20, 1966
- HUBERT RAY SMITHStaff Sergeant · March 20, 1966
From Milwaukee
- TOM JOSEPH CRESSLieutenant · January 6, 1961
- ROBERT BURGERTSergeant · February 13, 1963
- PETER MATTHEW FEIERABENDPrivate First Class · February 16, 1964
- THADDEUS ZAJACSpecialist Four · September 27, 1965
- JAMES CALVIN WARDPrivate First Class · October 11, 1965
- TIMOTHY HOLTON JOHNSONPrivate First Class · November 6, 1965
- RICHARD WILLIAM SCHWENDLERCorporal · November 16, 1965
- MICHAEL ALFRED GRUBERPrivate First Class · December 5, 1965
- RICHARD JOSEPH BRUNKEPrivate First Class · December 14, 1965
- MICHAEL PETER MORANPrivate First Class · January 9, 1966
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.