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RONALD DUANE GOLDEN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 22, 1944 – August 20, 1968
Service recordRonald Duane Golden, of Superior, Wisconsin, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 20, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 47W, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47W · Line 7
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- July 22, 1944
- Home of record
- Superior, Wisconsin (Douglas County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 20, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
44 names on the Wall carry the date August 20, 1968; five of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 64 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 47W, Line 7
- JOHN ALEXANDER CONNELLFirst Lieutenant · August 20, 1968
- FREDDIE LEE COUCHSergeant · August 20, 1968
- MARTIN ESPINOZALance Corporal · August 20, 1968
- CLARENCE FULTONSergeant First Class · August 20, 1968
Same unit, same day
- SAMUEL ARTHUR FEWFirst Lieutenant · Panel 47W, Line 8
- JAMES WALTER GATESSpecialist Four · Panel 47W, Line 8
- JEROME EDDIE WALLY JANSENSpecialist Four · Panel 47W, Line 9
- DONALD EUGENE LISENBYSergeant First Class · Panel 47W, Line 10
From Superior
- HOWARD DALE STROUSEMaster Sergeant · October 6, 1966
- ROBERT DALE ERICKSONSpecialist Four · January 13, 1967
- WILLIAM JOSEPH ANDERSONPrivate First Class · February 5, 1968
- WILLIAM ANTHONY PATTERSONPrivate First Class · June 9, 1968
- VICTOR BERT MEYERSSergeant · August 9, 1968
- ROY L EDELSTEINPrivate First Class · August 14, 1968
- JOHN CHARLES SHELLUMSpecialist Four · April 18, 1969
- DAVID LENOX BANKSPrivate First Class · April 21, 1969
- JOHN MICHAEL BOZINSKIWarrant Officer 1 · August 15, 1969
- JAMES JOHN GUNDERSONSergeant · November 15, 1969
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.