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RAYMOND PAUL SALZARULO JR
Captain · U.S. Air Force
August 31, 1942 – September 4, 1966
Service recordRaymond Paul Salzarulo JR, of Follansbee, West Virginia, served as a Captain in the U.S. Air Force. He died on September 4, 1966, in North Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10E · Line 69
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Air Force
- Rank
- Captain (CAPT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Pilot (1115F)
- Born
- August 31, 1942
- Home of record
- Follansbee, West Virginia (Brooke County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 4, 1966
- Age
- 24
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
Ten names on the Wall carry the date September 4, 1966. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 10E, Line 69
- HARVEY LYN ROWLANDPrivate First Class · September 4, 1966
- EDWARD ARNOLD SHELTONPrivate First Class · September 4, 1966
- DON EARL ALLEYPrivate First Class · September 5, 1966
From Follansbee
- JOSEPH PERITOSergeant · September 2, 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.