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MARSHALL LEROY RITZ
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 13, 1945 – December 18, 1967
Service recordMarshall Leroy Ritz, of Delta, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 18, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32E · Line 18
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Pioneer (12A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- March 13, 1945
- Home of record
- Delta, Pennsylvania (York County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 18, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
15 names on the Wall carry the date December 18, 1967; three of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 106 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 32E, Line 18
- JAMES HOWARD BUSH JRPrivate First Class · December 18, 1967
- ERNEST MAYPrivate First Class · December 18, 1967
- JOSEPH MORGAN JRSpecialist Four · December 18, 1967
- GEORGE XAVIER ROCHAPrivate First Class · December 18, 1967
Same unit, same day
- EDWARD L CLEMMONSpecialist Four · Panel 32E, Line 17
- ROBERT JOSEPH GRANDESpecialist Four · Panel 32E, Line 17
From Delta
- ROBERT NELSON JONESFirst Lieutenant · May 9, 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.