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RONALD LEE WIGFIELD
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 25, 1947 – May 15, 1968
Service recordRonald Lee Wigfield, of Mineral City, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 15, 1968, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 61E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 61E · Line 5
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- December 25, 1947
- Home of record
- Mineral City, Ohio (Tuscarawas County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 15, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
75 names on the Wall carry the date May 15, 1968; eight of them were lost in Kien Hoa Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 115 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 61E, Line 5
- JOE RAY WHITTEDSergeant · May 15, 1968
- MELVIN ALVIN WILDMANPrivate First Class · May 15, 1968
- LAWRENCE GORIC ZIEGLERGunnery Sergeant · May 15, 1968
- MILTON GAY CLAYBORNELance Corporal · May 16, 1968
Same unit, same day
- WILLIE EDWARD ALSTONSergeant · Panel 60E, Line 17
- ANDREW JOSEPH BRINZO IIISpecialist Four · Panel 60E, Line 19
- MICHAEL THEODORE DRYDENSpecialist Four · Panel 60E, Line 21
- RANDOLPH PHILLIP ESTRADACorporal · Panel 60E, Line 22
- FRED WILLIAM MORRILLPrivate First Class · Panel 60E, Line 26
- WILLIE ROSS VARNEYSergeant · Panel 61E, Line 4
- FRANCIS MARION WEBSTERSpecialist Four · Panel 61E, Line 4
From Mineral City
- SHELBY EMERSON COOLEYPrivate First Class · May 10, 1968
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.