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RONALD LEE BERRY
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 26, 1950 – August 10, 1969
Service recordRonald Lee Berry, of Rainelle, West Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 10, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 121 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · Line 121
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- March 26, 1950
- Home of record
- Rainelle, West Virginia (Greenbrier County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 10, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
41 names on the Wall carry the date August 10, 1969; three of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20W, Line 121
- ALBERTO TORRES ANZALDUASergeant · August 10, 1969
- LEVI LESTER ARMSTRONGPrivate First Class · August 10, 1969
- DAVID EDWARD CARTERSergeant First Class · August 10, 1969
- SAM CATALANO JRLance Corporal · August 10, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JAMES JOSEPH KROLIKOWSKISpecialist Four · Panel 20W, Line 124
From Rainelle
- RICHARD LOWELL CURDCorporal · August 17, 1967
- DONALD GENE LANHAMLance Corporal · August 19, 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.