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TIMOTHY CARL OCHS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 6, 1946 – January 30, 1968
Service recordTimothy Carl Ochs, of Dayton, New Jersey, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 30, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 77 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 77
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Telecommunications Operator-Maintainer (74C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
- Born
- December 6, 1946
- Home of record
- Dayton, New Jersey (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 30, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
99 names on the Wall carry the date January 30, 1968; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
He died in Gia Dinh Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 35E, Line 77
- PATRICK JAMES MCKINLEYLance Corporal · January 30, 1968
- GEORGE WAYNE MCREYNOLDSSpecialist Five · January 30, 1968
- WILLARD EDWARD NELSONLance Corporal · January 30, 1968
- ROBERT VERNON PETERSONLance Corporal · January 30, 1968
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.