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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jerome Norman Doll.

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JEROME NORMAN DOLL

Corporal · U.S. Army

April 15, 1949 – May 31, 1969

Service record

Jerome Norman Doll, of Port Washington, Wisconsin, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on May 31, 1969, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 23W, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 23W · Line 26

Position of Panel 23W 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
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
April 15, 1949
Home of record
Port Washington, Wisconsin (Ozaukee County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 31, 1969
Age
20
Province
Pleiku
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

53 names on the Wall carry the date May 31, 1969; eight of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 76 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 23W, Line 26

Same unit, same day

From Port Washington

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.