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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of John William Zuehlsdorf.

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JOHN WILLIAM ZUEHLSDORF

First Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps

March 3, 1942 – July 28, 1968

Service record

John William Zuehlsdorf, of Hubbell, Nebraska, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 28, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 50W, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 50W · Line 28

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
First Lieutenant (1STLT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Pilot Ch-53 A/D Qualified (I) (7564)
Born
March 3, 1942
Home of record
Hubbell, Nebraska (Thayer County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 28, 1968
Age
26
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

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38 names on the Wall carry the date July 28, 1968; 26 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 50W, Line 28

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.