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Capt Jerry Allen Zimmer
Cenotaph

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Capt Jerry Allen Zimmer

Birth
Death
29 Aug 1969 (aged 25)
Cenotaph
Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA Add to Map
Plot
Sec MK Site 165
Memorial ID
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JERRY ALLEN ZIMMER
is honored on Panel 18W, Row 9 of
the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

Full Name: JERRY ALLEN ZIMMER
Wall Name: JERRY A ZIMMER
Date of Birth: 5/5/1944
Date of Casualty: 8/29/1969
Home of Record: MAINE, NY
County of Record: BROOME COUNTY
State: NY
Branch of Service: MARINE CORPS
Rank: CAPTAIN
Length of Service: 03
Unit: VMFA-542, MAG-11, 1ST MAW, III MAF
Casualty Country: SOUTH VIETNAM
Casualty Province: QUANG NAM
Casualty Type: HOSTILE, DIED OUTRIGHT
Casualty Reason: FIXED WING - PILOT
Casualty Detail: AIR LOSS OR CRASH OVER LAND
Status: MIA

We WILL find you and we will bring you home!

From the ABMC: Captain Zimmer was a member of the Marine Attack Fighter Squadron 542, Marine Attack Group 11, 1st Marine Air Wing. On August 29, 1969, he was the pilot of a McDonnell Douglas Phanton II Fighter (F-4B) flying over Quang Nam Province South Vietnam, when his aircraft was hit by enemy fire and crashed. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.

Jerry's REO, a High School classmate - Albert Stephen Graf also died in that crash. His Find A Grave Memorial# 49191727.

~By CL Hileman

JERRY ALLEN ZIMMER
is honored on Panel 18W, Row 9 of
the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

Full Name: JERRY ALLEN ZIMMER
Wall Name: JERRY A ZIMMER
Date of Birth: 5/5/1944
Date of Casualty: 8/29/1969
Home of Record: MAINE, NY
County of Record: BROOME COUNTY
State: NY
Branch of Service: MARINE CORPS
Rank: CAPTAIN
Length of Service: 03
Unit: VMFA-542, MAG-11, 1ST MAW, III MAF
Casualty Country: SOUTH VIETNAM
Casualty Province: QUANG NAM
Casualty Type: HOSTILE, DIED OUTRIGHT
Casualty Reason: FIXED WING - PILOT
Casualty Detail: AIR LOSS OR CRASH OVER LAND
Status: MIA

We WILL find you and we will bring you home!

From the ABMC: Captain Zimmer was a member of the Marine Attack Fighter Squadron 542, Marine Attack Group 11, 1st Marine Air Wing. On August 29, 1969, he was the pilot of a McDonnell Douglas Phanton II Fighter (F-4B) flying over Quang Nam Province South Vietnam, when his aircraft was hit by enemy fire and crashed. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.

Jerry's REO, a High School classmate - Albert Stephen Graf also died in that crash. His Find A Grave Memorial# 49191727.

~By CL Hileman

Gravesite Details

http://www.bringingjerryhome.com/


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