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RONALD LEE HILDERBRAND
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
October 11, 1937 – May 6, 1967
Service recordRonald Lee Hilderbrand, of Laverne, Oklahoma, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 6, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 19E, Line 49 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19E · Line 49
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- October 11, 1937
- Home of record
- Laverne, Oklahoma (Harper County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 6, 1967
- Age
- 29
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date May 6, 1967; two of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 19E, Line 49
- VERLIN RICHARD BRANDENBURGPrivate First Class · May 6, 1967
- THOMAS GARRET FANNINGSergeant · May 6, 1967
- RICHARD CHARLES GUPTONSpecialist Four · May 6, 1967
From Laverne
- JOHN ALAN LANGSTONStaff Sergeant · December 3, 1968
- JOHNNIE LEROY ISHMAELChief Warrant Officer 2 · February 4, 1970
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.