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RONALD GENE HEMBREE
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
March 4, 1947 – May 28, 1968
Service recordRonald Gene Hembree, of Andrews, North Carolina, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 28, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 64W, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 64W · Line 10
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 Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- March 4, 1947
- Home of record
- Andrews, North Carolina (Cherokee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 28, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
74 names on the Wall carry the date May 28, 1968; 35 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 64W, Line 10
- JOSEPH ARNOLD HILLLance Corporal · May 28, 1968
- JAMES WENDELL HOLBROOKPrivate First Class · May 28, 1968
- BEN WILLIS HOWELLSergeant First Class · May 28, 1968
- PHILLIP DANIEL MILLERLance Corporal · May 28, 1968
From Andrews
- RAYMOND T MASHBURNSergeant · October 23, 1967
- JAMES CLINTON BRYANTPrivate First Class · April 17, 1968
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.