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RONNIE GILMAN ALCOCK
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
September 6, 1947 – May 17, 1969
Service recordRonnie Gilman Alcock, of Greenville, North Carolina, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 17, 1969, in Kien Giang Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 27
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
- Engineman (EN)
- Born
- September 6, 1947
- Home of record
- Greenville, North Carolina (Pitt County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 17, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Kien Giang
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date May 17, 1969; four of them were lost in Kien Giang Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 24W, Line 27
- JAMES GEORGE WITHAMSpecialist Four · May 16, 1969
- DAVID ALICEA-SERRANOSergeant · May 17, 1969
- FELIX ARROYO-SIERRA JRSergeant · May 17, 1969
- EDWARD DEITMANSergeant · May 17, 1969
From Greenville
- TERRY WAYNE SUTTONPrivate First Class · February 24, 1968
- GRIFFIN ELI SCARBOROUGHCaptain · May 12, 1968
- WILLIE TUCKER JRLance Corporal · May 31, 1968
- ROBERT DOUGLAS MOYECorporal · August 22, 1968
- GARY STEPHEN HODGESPrivate First Class · December 10, 1968
- DONALD RAY ARNOLDPrivate First Class · March 27, 1969
- RICHARD JAMES PARNELLSergeant · July 21, 1969
- RICHARD KEY GRAYChief Warrant Officer 2 · September 14, 1969
- WALTER LEE WILSON JRSergeant · February 24, 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.