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WALTER ROY SCHMIDT JR
Captain · U.S. Marine Corps
November 18, 1945 – June 9, 1968
Service recordWalter Roy Schmidt JR, of Nassau, New York, served as a Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. He was lost on June 9, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 58W, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 58W · Line 14
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Captain (CAPT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Pilot Vma A-4 Qualified (I) (7501)
- Unit (as recorded)
- VMA 121 MAG 12 1 MAW
- Born
- November 18, 1945
- Home of record
- Nassau, New York (Rensselaer County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- June 9, 1968
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Captured / prisoner of war
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
58 names on the Wall carry the date June 9, 1968; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 58W, Line 14
- JACK COLUMBUS RITTICHIERLieutenant · June 9, 1968
- AUGUST ROMANOPrivate First Class · June 9, 1968
- RICKY LEE SHACKELFORDSpecialist Four · June 9, 1968
- DONATO JOSEPH SIMIELESergeant · June 9, 1968
From Nassau
- FREDERICK JOHN BURNSSergeant · December 25, 1967
- WILLIAM JOHN HAMMERSpecialist Four · March 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.