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RONALD WAYNE SHIELDS
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
March 9, 1949 – February 13, 1968
Service recordRonald Wayne Shields, of Enid, Oklahoma, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 13, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39E · Line 21
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- March 9, 1949
- Home of record
- Enid, Oklahoma (Garfield County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 13, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
60 names on the Wall carry the date February 13, 1968; 15 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. 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 39E, Line 21
- JAMES F FUQUASpecialist Four · February 13, 1968
- JACK WILLIAM GRANDAHLSpecialist Four · February 13, 1968
- EDDIE CLAYTON HARRISPrivate First Class · February 13, 1968
- FRANKLIN DELANO R HATTONSergeant · February 13, 1968
From Enid
- JERRY DEAN TABERSpecialist Five · November 5, 1966
- GERALD RAY BURNSLance Corporal · November 8, 1966
- RODNEY L RIEGERCaptain · February 24, 1967
- TOMMY WAYNE HALEYPrivate First Class · May 13, 1967
- HARVEY LEE REMBERTLance Corporal · December 27, 1967
- LESTER JAMES VEAZEYPrivate First Class · January 20, 1968
- ROBERT BENJAMIN HUDSONSpecialist Four · February 24, 1968
- BILLY RAY KIELYSpecialist Four · May 9, 1968
- HARLIN PERRY TREENMajor · August 12, 1968
- ROBERT MICHAEL KUMMELLSergeant · November 7, 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.