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RONALD WAYNE DURBIN
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
April 6, 1947 – May 26, 1968
Service recordRonald Wayne Durbin, of Cumberland, Maryland, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 26, 1968, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 66W, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 66W · Line 5
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 Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Boatswain's Mate (BM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MOBILE RIVERINE FORCE TF 117 SQ 11 ASLT DIV 11
- Born
- April 6, 1947
- Home of record
- Cumberland, Maryland (Allegany County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 26, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date May 26, 1968; nine of them were lost in Kien Hoa Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “MOBILE RIVERINE FORCE TF 117 SQ 11 ASLT DIV 11”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 66W, Line 5
- JESSIE JAMES DANNERPrivate First Class · May 26, 1968
- JACK DEMPSEY DEESEStaff Sergeant · May 26, 1968
- LESTER ERBYLance Corporal · May 26, 1968
- NATHANIEL HALIBURTON JRPrivate First Class · May 26, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JERRY LEONARD WILLIAMSPetty Officer Third Class · Panel 65W, Line 3
From Cumberland
- FREDERICK NORMAN BAKERSpecialist Four · June 12, 1965
- WELLINGTON MARTIN DONAHUEPrivate First Class · November 6, 1966
- CHARLES E ARONHALT JRFirst Lieutenant · May 18, 1967
- THOMAS JOHN MCMAHONPrivate First Class · September 10, 1967
- JOHN THOMAS WERTMANLance Corporal · October 5, 1967
- JOHN DERWOOD SAVILLE JRSpecialist Four · October 8, 1967
- JOSEPH PATRICK ROWLEYSpecialist Four · October 8, 1967
- ROGER DALE WILFONGStaff Sergeant · October 27, 1967
- CHARLES EDWARD GENTRYPrivate First Class · October 29, 1967
- THOMAS JACOB TORRINGTONLance Corporal · January 31, 1968
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.