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RONALD EUGENE SCHMIDT
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
June 4, 1949 – May 14, 1970
Service recordRonald Eugene Schmidt, of Forrest, Illinois, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 14, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 10W, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10W · Line 43
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- June 4, 1949
- Home of record
- Forrest, Illinois (Livingston County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 14, 1970
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
34 names on the Wall carry the date May 14, 1970; three of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 170 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 10W, Line 43
- JAMES PORTWOOD JRCorporal · May 14, 1970
- SILVESTRE MARTINEZ RIVERASergeant · May 14, 1970
- HERMAN SERNASpecialist Five · May 14, 1970
- JACK RUSSELL SMITHWarrant Officer 1 · May 14, 1970
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT ERNEST LOWESergeant · Panel 10W, Line 42
- JAMES EDWARD MIREMONTSergeant · Panel 10W, Line 42
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.