The Wall › Panel 31W › Oklahoma › Ronald Lloyd Sanders
RONALD LLOYD SANDERS
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
December 31, 1943 – February 23, 1969
Service recordRonald Lloyd Sanders, of Miami, Oklahoma, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on February 23, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 31W, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31W · Line 20
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Tactical Wire Operations Specialist (36K)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- December 31, 1943
- Home of record
- Miami, Oklahoma (Ottawa County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 23, 1969
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
209 names on the Wall carry the date February 23, 1969; 29 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 23 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 31W, Line 20
- GENE LEO SALZERSpecialist Four · February 23, 1969
- BOBBY SANDERSONSergeant · February 23, 1969
- WILLIAM HURLE SATTERFIELDLance Corporal · February 23, 1969
- JOHN STOUDT SHOEMAKERCorporal · February 23, 1969
Same unit, same day
- HOWARD STANLEY BIESANTZPrivate · Panel 32W, Line 89
- ROBERT DONALD EICKLEBERRYSpecialist Four · Panel 32W, Line 97
- WILLIAM ROY LAWSONSpecialist Four · Panel 31W, Line 8
- ROBERT MICHAEL LEESergeant · Panel 31W, Line 8
- STEPHEN JOSEPH PASTULASpecialist Four · Panel 31W, Line 14
- JERRY DEAN SPRADLINSpecialist Four · Panel 31W, Line 23
From Miami
- DREW DOUGLAS SHIPLEYSergeant · December 10, 1967
- THOMAS DALE ROBINSONPrivate First Class · December 22, 1967
- JAMES TERRY RANSTEADSecond Lieutenant · January 22, 1968
- GARY BRUCE MIDKIFFSergeant · February 4, 1968
- LEONARD ELZY EULITTPrivate First Class · February 9, 1968
- DONALD LEE RANKINSCorporal · June 12, 1968
- LONNIE EUGENE DUMASSergeant · December 29, 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.