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RONALD EUGENE MECKLEY
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
August 28, 1946 – July 15, 1967
Service recordRonald Eugene Meckley, of Denver, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on July 15, 1967, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 77 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23E · Line 77
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV
- Born
- August 28, 1946
- Home of record
- Denver, Pennsylvania (Lancaster County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 15, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Phuoc Tuy
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
35 names on the Wall carry the date July 15, 1967; five of them were lost in Phuoc Tuy Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 23E, Line 77
- PATRICK DONOVAN LUCASSpecialist Four · July 15, 1967
- JAMES EDWARD MESSENGERSergeant · July 15, 1967
- JOHN PAUL OLMSTEADSergeant · July 15, 1967
- DONALD PASKOWICZPrivate First Class · July 15, 1967
Same unit, same day
- PATRICK DONOVAN LUCASSpecialist Four · Panel 23E, Line 77
From Denver
- JAMES EDWARD HUNSICKERFirst Lieutenant · April 24, 1972
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.