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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Rolf Fred Lenzsch.

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ROLF FRED LENZSCH

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

December 25, 1935 – June 28, 1967

Service record

Rolf Fred Lenzsch, of Ventnor City, New Jersey, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 28, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 22E, Line 79 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 22E · Line 79

Position of Panel 22E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Combat Engineer (12B)
Unit (as recorded)
C CO 35 ENG BN 34 ENG GRP
Born
December 25, 1935
Home of record
Ventnor City, New Jersey (Atlantic County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 28, 1967
Age
31
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

31 names on the Wall carry the date June 28, 1967. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 22E, Line 79

From Ventnor City

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.