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MICHAEL JOHN RAMBERG
Sergeant · U.S. Army
April 29, 1943 – February 10, 1968
Service recordMichael John Ramberg, of Palm Beach, Florida, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 10, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 38E, Line 71 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38E · Line 71
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- April 29, 1943
- Home of record
- Palm Beach, Florida (Palm Beach County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 10, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
54 names on the Wall carry the date February 10, 1968; 15 of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.
He died in Gia Dinh Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 38E, Line 71
- CARL ELVING PETERSONColonel · February 10, 1968
- THOMAS MICHAEL PINATELLIPrivate First Class · February 10, 1968
- JOHN WAYNE ROWDENPrivate First Class · February 10, 1968
- DILLARD GALE RYEStaff Sergeant · February 10, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JOSEPH HENRY DOWNING JRStaff Sergeant · Panel 38E, Line 67
- CHARLES WOODSergeant First Class · Panel 38E, Line 74
From Palm Beach
- JAMES WESLEY MIZE JRSpecialist Four · February 18, 1966
- ALLEN B CHAMBERLAINSergeant · February 15, 1967
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.