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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 Lee Schurch.

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RONALD LEE SCHURCH

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

February 11, 1947 – June 26, 1967

Service record

Ronald Lee Schurch, of Orangeville, Illinois, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 26, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 22E, Line 66 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 22E · Line 66

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Assaultman (0351)
Unit (as recorded)
E CO 2 BN 4 MAR 3 MARDIV
Born
February 11, 1947
Home of record
Orangeville, Illinois (Stephenson County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 26, 1967
Age
20
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

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14 names on the Wall carry the date June 26, 1967; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 22E, Line 66

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.