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RONNY LEROY PALMER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 6, 1946 – May 18, 1967
Service recordRonny Leroy Palmer, of Azusa, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 18, 1967, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20E · Line 33
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- October 6, 1946
- Home of record
- Azusa, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 18, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
94 names on the Wall carry the date May 18, 1967; two of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 110 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20E, Line 33
- THEODORE RUSSELL NELSONPetty Officer Third Class · May 18, 1967
- JAMES CLIFTON OFFLEYPrivate First Class · May 18, 1967
- PHILIP JOHN OLOFSONPrivate First Class · May 18, 1967
- JEARL EDWARD RIMMERSergeant · May 18, 1967
From Azusa
- FRED LEWIS PEDERSENStaff Sergeant · January 28, 1967
- JOHNNY LEE WASHBURNSpecialist Four · March 19, 1967
- FRANK GONZALES ROMOSergeant · June 17, 1967
- ROBERT GEAN COOPERPrivate First Class · August 14, 1968
- FAGALII LAITA LEATUTUFUStaff Sergeant · November 9, 1968
- TRINIDAD GUTIERREZ PRIETOSpecialist Four · February 13, 1970
- JOE LUNA JRSpecialist Four · August 28, 1970
- WILLIAM EARVIN PIERCELance Corporal · February 13, 1971
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.