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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Ronald Miller Fero.

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RONALD MILLER FERO

Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army

July 23, 1933 – December 20, 1965

Service record

Ronald Miller Fero, of Scotia, New York, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on December 20, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 4E · Line 30

Position of Panel 4E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Born
July 23, 1933
Home of record
Scotia, New York (Schenectady County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 20, 1965
Age
32
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

14 names on the Wall carry the date December 20, 1965. In December 1965, 326 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 4E, Line 30

From Scotia

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.