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JEROME EDWIN OLMSTED
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
May 15, 1943 – November 30, 1967
Service recordJerome Edwin Olmsted, of Clintonville, Wisconsin, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 30, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31E · Line 15
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Nurse Anesthetist (3445)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 85 EVAC HOSP 55 MED GRP 44 MED BDE
- Born
- May 15, 1943
- Home of record
- Clintonville, Wisconsin (Waupaca County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 30, 1967
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
60 names on the Wall carry the date November 30, 1967; 23 of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “85 EVAC HOSP 55 MED GRP 44 MED BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 31E, Line 15
- NELSON WILLIAM MCKENNAPrivate First Class · November 30, 1967
- JOHN JOSEPH MCNABBPrivate First Class · November 30, 1967
- HEDWIG DIANE ORLOWSKIFirst Lieutenant · November 30, 1967
- JAMES KEITH OXLEYHospitalman · November 30, 1967
Same unit, same day
- PHILLIP ARTHUR OGASSpecialist Five · Panel 31E, Line 14
From Clintonville
- VALENTINE BERNARD VOLLMERSpecialist Four · February 16, 1968
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.