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RONALD MARVIN DELP
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 4, 1947 – October 18, 1968
Service recordRonald Marvin Delp, of Delaware, Indiana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 18, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 41W, Line 72 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41W · Line 72
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV
- Born
- August 4, 1947
- Home of record
- Delaware, Indiana (Ripley County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 18, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date October 18, 1968; six of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 41W, Line 72
- LARRY DARRALL BENNETTSergeant · October 18, 1968
- RICHARD OLIVER BICKFORDFirst Lieutenant · October 18, 1968
- TIMOTHY COLE JRWarrant Officer 1 · October 18, 1968
- ROBERT W DIEFFENBACH JRSpecialist Four · October 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- WAYNE JOSEPH BENESPrivate First Class · Panel 41W, Line 73
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.