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RALPH RONALD SPRINGS JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 27, 1941 – March 9, 1967
Service recordRalph Ronald Springs JR, of Rockwood, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 9, 1967, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 47 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 47
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- December 27, 1941
- Home of record
- Rockwood, Tennessee (Roane County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 9, 1967
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date March 9, 1967; two of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 27 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 16E, Line 47
- NORMAN GERARD LOZEAUPrivate First Class · March 9, 1967
- JOHN MONTAGUE MANSFIELDPrivate First Class · March 9, 1967
- ANGEL ORTIZ-RODRIGUEZSergeant · March 9, 1967
- OSCAR WAYNE PIERCESpecialist Four · March 9, 1967
From Rockwood
- JAMES EARL CUNNINGHAMSpecialist Four · April 29, 1966
- BILLY WALKER MCGHEEPetty Officer First Class · February 6, 1968
- ALVIN FLYNN GUNTERSergeant First Class · March 28, 1969
- MICHAEL LYNN FERGUSONPetty Officer First Class · November 28, 1969
- JAMES WILLIAM KNIGHTSpecialist Five · September 11, 1970
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.