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RONALD PAUL PETRICK
Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
June 30, 1944 – August 20, 1965
Service recordRonald Paul Petrick, of Montclair, California, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 20, 1965, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 64 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2E · Line 64
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- June 30, 1944
- Home of record
- Montclair, California (San Bernardino County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 20, 1965
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
Three names on the Wall carry the date August 20, 1965; two of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In August 1965, 179 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Tín Province 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 casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 2E, Line 64
- JAMES LEO WHITELance Corporal · August 19, 1965
- NED NATALE LOSCUITOCaptain · August 20, 1965
- MORRIS OLEN MUSICK JRLance Corporal · August 20, 1965
- VIRGIL WAYNE BARTONLance Corporal · August 21, 1965
From Montclair
- ERNEST JOSEPH HALVORSONStaff Sergeant · October 24, 1964
- ROBERT WAYNE KINGLance Corporal · July 10, 1966
- JAMES RANDALL HOTTENROTHFirst Lieutenant · October 15, 1967
- LAVERN LEO SALZMANSergeant · October 25, 1967
- FRANK DAVID PINACaptain · March 1, 1968
- JOHNNIE LLOYD DANIELSpecialist Four · May 31, 1968
- TIMOTHY PATRICK WEAVERSpecialist Four · October 10, 1968
- AMEDEE GEORGE GRANELLE JRPrivate First Class · December 6, 1968
- DONALD LEE KIPPSpecialist Four · February 8, 1969
- WILLIAM FREDERICK LEASECorporal · November 21, 1969
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.