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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 Howard Pfeuffer.

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RONALD HOWARD PFEUFFER

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

January 9, 1946 – July 27, 1967

Service record

Ronald Howard Pfeuffer, of Kerrville, Texas, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 27, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 24E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 24E · Line 10

Position of Panel 24E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Machinegunner (0331)
Born
January 9, 1946
Home of record
Kerrville, Texas (Kerr County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 27, 1967
Age
21
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

37 names on the Wall carry the date July 27, 1967; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 24E, Line 10

From Kerrville

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.