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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Ronald M Snow.

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RONALD M SNOW

Private First Class · U.S. Army

November 15, 1945 – February 7, 1966

Service record

Ronald M Snow, of New York, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 7, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 5E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 5E · Line 15

Position of Panel 5E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
November 15, 1945
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 7, 1966
Age
20
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

39 names on the Wall carry the date February 7, 1966. In February 1966, 513 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 59 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 5E, Line 15

Same unit, same day

From New York

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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.