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MERLIN HOWARD VROMAN
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
August 18, 1932 – July 21, 1967
Service recordMerlin Howard Vroman, of Titusville, Pennsylvania, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 21, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 105 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23E · Line 105
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Crewman (11E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- August 18, 1932
- Home of record
- Titusville, Pennsylvania (Crawford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 21, 1967
- Age
- 34
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
50 names on the Wall carry the date July 21, 1967; eight of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 9 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 23E, Line 105
- RICHARD FURLONG SUTTERCorporal · July 21, 1967
- WAYNE JOHN SYLVIAPrivate First Class · July 21, 1967
- PATRICK JOHN VASQUEZLance Corporal · July 21, 1967
- DENNIS JAMES WAHLSpecialist Four · July 21, 1967
From Titusville
- PATRICK CYRIL CARTNEYSpecialist Five · January 31, 1968
- JOSEPH RICHARD BENNETTPrivate First Class · April 24, 1968
- DONALD R PHILLIS JRSergeant · July 14, 1968
- ALFRED LEROY WYANTCorporal · August 2, 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.