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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Ronald Eugene Gerwig.

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RONALD EUGENE GERWIG

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

December 10, 1944 – August 18, 1967

Service record

Ronald Eugene Gerwig, of Harmony, Pennsylvania, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 18, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 25E · Line 12

Position of Panel 25E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
December 10, 1944
Home of record
Harmony, Pennsylvania (Butler County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 18, 1967
Age
22
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

23 names on the Wall carry the date August 18, 1967; four of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 25E, Line 12

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.