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RONALD ROY LAKE
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
October 7, 1947 – March 24, 1968
Service recordRonald Roy Lake, of Sioux City, Iowa, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 24, 1968, in Sa Dec Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 8
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Gunner's Mate (Guns) (GMG)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- October 7, 1947
- Home of record
- Sioux City, Iowa (Woodbury County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 24, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Sa Dec
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
58 names on the Wall carry the date March 24, 1968; three of them were lost in Sa Dec Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
He died in Sa Dec Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 46E, Line 8
- GERALD ROGER LEGERSergeant · March 24, 1968
- ROBERT J LORENZOSergeant · March 24, 1968
- LOUIS JOSEPH MAHER JRSergeant · March 24, 1968
- GEORGE ROLAND MARTINSpecialist Four · March 24, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ARTHUR ONEILL PRENDERGASTPetty Officer First Class · Panel 46E, Line 10
- GEORGE FLOYD PROFFERPetty Officer First Class · Panel 46E, Line 10
From Sioux City
- DUANE MICHAEL NELSONPrivate First Class · October 10, 1965
- VERNON GLENN CHASEPrivate First Class · February 21, 1966
- DENNIS EDWARD BROWNPrivate First Class · June 11, 1966
- RONALD HARRY KAISERPrivate First Class · August 1, 1966
- FREDERICK WILLIAM LENNONSpecialist Four · October 17, 1966
- KENNETT KEITH SCOTTLance Corporal · October 19, 1966
- ROBERT ERNEST HARRISLieutenant Colonel · November 9, 1966
- JEFFREY MARTI KROMMENHOEKLieutenant Commander · October 25, 1967
- KELLY FRANCIS COOKColonel · November 10, 1967
- RICHARD JOSEPH BOESHARTSergeant · December 15, 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.