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RONALD LEE ZACH
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 10, 1947 – April 3, 1968
Service recordRonald Lee Zach, of Oak Lawn, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 3, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47E · Line 54
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- August 10, 1947
- Home of record
- Oak Lawn, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 3, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
65 names on the Wall carry the date April 3, 1968; he was the only one lost in Hua Nghia Province that day. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 110 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 47E, Line 54
- DOUGLAS CECIL RISTINESpecialist Four · April 3, 1968
- ERVIN LEE RUSHLance Corporal · April 3, 1968
- GARY ARDEAN RYDENPrivate First Class · April 3, 1968
- CHARLES PATRICK SCARANOPrivate First Class · April 3, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JOSEPH BERNARD KUBECaptain · Panel 47E, Line 51
- WILLIE SHELTONPrivate First Class · Panel 47E, Line 55
From Oak Lawn
- TERRENCE LEE SOUHRADAPrivate First Class · February 23, 1966
- STEPHEN FRANK JALLOWAYSergeant · December 15, 1966
- JOHN DANIEL GILGENBERGLance Corporal · May 10, 1967
- WARREN OWINGS KENEIPP JRCaptain · July 2, 1967
- BERNARD FRANCIS FORDAirman First Class · July 5, 1967
- BOBBY DANIEL MATHENYStaff Sergeant · February 10, 1968
- JOSEPH SALVATORE PERYSIANSeaman · March 14, 1968
- THOMAS STEPHEN COLELance Corporal · April 27, 1968
- WILLIAM HARLEY GIBBS JRPrivate First Class · July 5, 1968
- JAMES MARTIN WITHERSPOONSergeant · July 29, 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.