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RONALD WILLIAM CARDONA
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 9, 1949 – July 6, 1969
Service recordRonald William Cardona, of Gardner, Massachusetts, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 6, 1969, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21W · Line 69
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- August 9, 1949
- Home of record
- Gardner, Massachusetts (Worcester County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 6, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date July 6, 1969; three of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 26 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 21W, Line 69
- DAVID EUGENE BUTTRYPrivate First Class · July 6, 1969
- THOMAS RUSSELL COLLINS JRSpecialist Four · July 6, 1969
- JAMES LEE DAVISPrivate First Class · July 6, 1969
- RODNEY JEROME DELISLEPrivate First Class · July 6, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ERVIN JONESSergeant · Panel 21W, Line 70
- GOLSBY KIMBROUGH JRSergeant · Panel 21W, Line 70
- JERRY WAYNE SPEARSCorporal · Panel 21W, Line 71
From Gardner
- EMILE JOSEPH LEGERESpecialist Four · July 11, 1967
- JOHN CHESTER GEMBORYSLance Corporal · July 30, 1967
- WILLIAM FLOYD BRONSON JRCorporal · March 9, 1968
- FIDELE JOSEPH BASTARACHESergeant · May 27, 1968
- FRANCIS JOSEPH COULOMBELance Corporal · July 28, 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.