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Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970.
Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Ronnie Marshall Duncan.

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RONNIE MARSHALL DUNCAN

Private First Class · U.S. Army

September 16, 1942 – October 10, 1965

Service record

Ronnie Marshall Duncan, of Wake Forest, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 10, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 115 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 2E · Line 115

Position of Panel 2E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
173 AIRBORNE BDE
Born
September 16, 1942
Home of record
Wake Forest, North Carolina (Wake County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 10, 1965
Age
23
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

15 names on the Wall carry the date October 10, 1965. In October 1965, 236 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 32 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 2E, Line 115

Same unit, same day

From Wake Forest

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.