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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Joseph A Zutterman JR.

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JOSEPH A ZUTTERMAN JR

Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

October 3, 1944 – April 20, 1968

Service record

Joseph A Zutterman JR, of Marysville, Kansas, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 20, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 51E, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 51E · Line 9

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Nuclear, Biological And Chemical Defense Specialist (5711)
Unit (as recorded)
VMO 2 MAG 16 1 MAW
Born
October 3, 1944
Home of record
Marysville, Kansas (Marshall County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 20, 1968
Age
23
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew
Remains
Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record

Context · from the records

What was happening

52 names on the Wall carry the date April 20, 1968; eight of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “VMO 2 MAG 16 1 MAW”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.

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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.