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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 Ronald Edward Ange.

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RONALD EDWARD ANGE

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

June 6, 1947 – May 21, 1966

Service record

Ronald Edward Ange, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 21, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 7E, Line 92 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 7E · Line 92

Position of Panel 7E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
June 6, 1947
Home of record
Virginia Beach, Virginia (Virginia Beach (City) County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 21, 1966
Age
18
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

41 names on the Wall carry the date May 21, 1966. In May 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 93 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 7E, Line 92

Same unit, same day

From Virginia Beach

All 34 names from Virginia Beach →

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.