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RONALD LESTER GRANVILLE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 25, 1947 – September 27, 1968
Service recordRonald Lester Granville, of Rochdale, Massachusetts, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 27, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 42W, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42W · Line 28
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 498 MED CO USARV
- Born
- July 25, 1947
- Home of record
- Rochdale, Massachusetts (Worcester County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 27, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date September 27, 1968; eight of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “498 MED CO USARV”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 42W, Line 28
- CHARLES EDWARD DELASSUSSergeant · September 27, 1968
- JERRY EDWARD DENSONPrivate First Class · September 27, 1968
- DONALD LEE ELDRIDGEPrivate First Class · September 27, 1968
- MITCHELL LAWRENCE FIRMINSpecialist Four · September 27, 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.