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RONALD LOUIS POWELL
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
March 3, 1944 – August 24, 1965
Service recordRonald Louis Powell, of Royal Oak, Michigan, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 24, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 5E, Line 60 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5E · Line 60
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Bulk Fuel Specialist (1391)
- Born
- March 3, 1944
- Home of record
- Royal Oak, Michigan (Oakland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 24, 1965
- Age
- 21
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
61 names on the Wall carry the date August 24, 1965. In August 1965, 179 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in South Vietnam while Operation Starlite was under way. Operation Starlite (18–24 August 1965), on the Van Tuong peninsula south of Chu Lai, was the first regimental-size U.S. ground battle of the war. Marines attacked the 1st Viet Cong Regiment by helicopter, amphibious landing and on foot. The record gives the date and branch of service but not the exact place.
Also on Panel 5E, Line 60
- JAMES LEONARD FAINSpecialist Four · February 22, 1966
- LYNDSEY FRANK FONGERPrivate First Class · February 22, 1966
- GARY WILLIAM GARISSpecialist Four · February 22, 1966
- CALVIN RAYMOND HEBERT JRCorporal · February 22, 1966
- LEO FREDERICK KRUMBINEPrivate First Class · February 22, 1966
From Royal Oak
- JOHN CHRISTOPHER KNAGGSCaptain · October 29, 1964
- ROBERT EDWARDS RAWLSCaptain · September 18, 1965
- MARTIN JOHN MASSUCCIMajor · October 1, 1965
- ROBERT FRANKLIN TOWNSENDSergeant First Class · November 4, 1965
- JARMO ANTERO KARIPrivate First Class · February 9, 1966
- DONALD ALLEN SMITH JRPrivate First Class · October 4, 1966
- THOMAS EDDY BIRDSALLLance Corporal · November 12, 1966
- LARRY DAVID ROSSPrivate First Class · February 18, 1967
- DAVID FRANKLIN VANDERCOOKPrivate First Class · February 25, 1967
- KENNETH MILES EDWARDSPrivate First Class · February 28, 1967
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.