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RONALD GENE PACE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 11, 1947 – March 30, 1969
Service recordRonald Gene Pace, of Sherman, Texas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 30, 1969, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 93 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 93
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. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- May 11, 1947
- Home of record
- Sherman, Texas (Grayson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 30, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date March 30, 1969; two of them were lost in Kien Hoa Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 78 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 93
- LAWSON DWIGHT NELSONPrivate First Class · March 30, 1969
- DONALD LEE NIXONCorporal · March 30, 1969
- JOSEPH JAMES POLASEK JRSpecialist Four · March 30, 1969
- EUGENE RAYMOND SHERIDANSergeant First Class · March 30, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ELMER EDWARD BARRSpecialist Four · Panel 28W, Line 88
- CHESTER H TERRY JRSergeant · Panel 28W, Line 94
From Sherman
- ARTHUR P WRIGHTCaptain · May 17, 1966
- WAYNE SAMUEL FIELDENSpecialist Four · June 19, 1967
- BILLY FRANK WATSONSpecialist Four · August 21, 1967
- JERRY LEE THOMASPrivate First Class · September 6, 1967
- LEONARD LEROY BEVELSSergeant · November 23, 1967
- DANNY LYNN GILSTRAPSecond Lieutenant · February 22, 1968
- DONALD ELLIOT WESTBROOKColonel · March 13, 1968
- ROBERT LOUIS POLKLance Corporal · June 9, 1968
- DONALD JAY ROEPrivate First Class · June 24, 1968
- MONTE DALE DYKESPrivate First Class · August 29, 1969
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.