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RONALD WAYNE SIMMONS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 10, 1947 – September 2, 1967
Service recordRonald Wayne Simmons, of Blackwell, Oklahoma, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 2, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 89 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25E · Line 89
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 512 TRANS CO 1 LOG CMD
- Born
- September 10, 1947
- Home of record
- Blackwell, Oklahoma (Kay County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 2, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
50 names on the Wall carry the date September 2, 1967; eight of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “512 TRANS CO 1 LOG CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 25E, Line 89
- PERCY JULIANSergeant · September 2, 1967
- GORDON MICHAEL REEVESLance Corporal · September 2, 1967
- SANFORD SHROUT JRLance Corporal · September 2, 1967
- ROBERT LYLE STEBNER JRPrivate First Class · September 2, 1967
Same unit, same day
- CLAUDE LAVERNE COLLINSStaff Sergeant · Panel 25E, Line 82
From Blackwell
- JOHNNIE WAYNE CARDWELLPrivate First Class · December 2, 1966
- GARY MAX WELCHLance Corporal · April 23, 1967
- RODNEY PHILLIP TROYERSpecialist Four · February 8, 1968
- CLARENCE LEON ROUSESergeant · March 11, 1969
- DENNIS IRVIN DAYSergeant · November 3, 1970
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.