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RONALD EARL PACE
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
March 19, 1947 – May 17, 1969
Service recordRonald Earl Pace, of Los Angeles, California, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 17, 1969, in Kien Giang Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 33
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Quartermaster (QM)
- Born
- March 19, 1947
- Home of record
- Los Angeles, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 17, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Kien Giang
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date May 17, 1969; four of them were lost in Kien Giang Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 24W, Line 33
- JAMES BRUCE JOHNSON SRStaff Sergeant · May 17, 1969
- DOUGLAS EDWARD LOHMEYERCorporal · May 17, 1969
- PHILLIP LESLEY MACLEODSpecialist Four · May 17, 1969
- GILBERT WAYNE PAGESergeant · May 17, 1969
From Los Angeles
- JAMES WILLIAM MCNALLYTechnical Sergeant · October 23, 1963
- FRANK JOHN HOLGUINPrivate First Class · March 15, 1964
- RICHARD DEAN GOSSCaptain · August 29, 1964
- JOHN LOWERY MCCOYSergeant First Class · September 26, 1964
- JAMES HENRY MCLEANMaster Sergeant · February 9, 1965
- DWIGHT GLENN FRAKESChief Petty Officer · February 24, 1965
- AARON HAROLD WESTERNPrivate First Class · June 16, 1965
- EDWARD JAMES ANDERSPrivate First Class · June 18, 1965
- MAURICE RICHARD HILLPrivate · June 29, 1965
- WILLIAM WARREN HAILLieutenant Colonel · August 2, 1965
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.