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RONALD LEE BLACK
Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
January 29, 1946 – September 11, 1967
Service recordRonald Lee Black, of Jacksonville, Illinois, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 11, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26E · Line 54
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- January 29, 1946
- Home of record
- Jacksonville, Illinois (Morgan County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 11, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date September 11, 1967; five of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 26E, Line 54
- JIMMY DARRELL WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · September 10, 1967
- JAMES CLAIR WILSONPrivate First Class · September 10, 1967
- LUCIUS WINFIELDCorporal · September 10, 1967
- MICHAEL FERDINAND WOLFLance Corporal · September 10, 1967
From Jacksonville
- CHARLES WILLIAM SANDERSSecond Lieutenant · March 18, 1967
- ROBERT CHARLES MCMAHANLieutenant Commander · February 14, 1968
- ROBERT LEE WATTSSergeant · February 26, 1968
- LARRY EUGENE WELCHSecond Lieutenant · March 14, 1968
- STEVEN RAY LOWEPrivate First Class · May 31, 1970
- ROBERT RAY LYNNMajor · December 21, 1972
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.