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JERRY DEAN SCHROEDER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 21, 1943 – January 3, 1968
Service recordJerry Dean Schroeder, of Santa Rosa, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 3, 1968, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 33E, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33E · Line 32
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- January 21, 1943
- Home of record
- Santa Rosa, California (Sonoma County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 3, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Phuoc Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Burns/Smoke Inhalation
Context · from the records
What was happening
44 names on the Wall carry the date January 3, 1968; he was the only one lost in Phuoc Long Province that day. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 33E, Line 32
- HENRY EDWARD SCHANCKLance Corporal · January 3, 1968
- JAMES LEE SCHERERPrivate First Class · January 3, 1968
- JERRY LYNN SMITHSergeant · January 3, 1968
- MORGAN EUGENE STEWARTSergeant · January 3, 1968
From Santa Rosa
- DANA GALE ROSELance Corporal · December 31, 1966
- DAVID MICHAEL CHANEYAirman First Class · April 16, 1967
- JAMES ALLEN BULLINGTONWarrant Officer 1 · May 6, 1967
- JOHN HERBERT SNYDERAirman Second Class · October 15, 1967
- GREGORY LYNN DUNNPrivate First Class · November 13, 1967
- RICKIE DAVIS FISHERPrivate · December 4, 1967
- JOSEPH MICHAEL RODRIGUESSpecialist Four · February 2, 1968
- ROBERT LEON SHARPLESSPrivate First Class · February 9, 1968
- FREDERICK WILLIAM HAASSpecialist Four · February 15, 1968
- CHARLES DUDLEY DORMANCorporal · May 12, 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.