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DON ALLEN BOOZER
Sergeant · U.S. Army
December 19, 1943 – March 5, 1968
Service recordDon Allen Boozer, of Plantersville, Mississippi, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 5, 1968, in Kien Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 43E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43E · Line 3
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- December 19, 1943
- Home of record
- Plantersville, Mississippi (Lee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 5, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Kien Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date March 5, 1968; two of them were lost in Kien Tuong Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 101 of its members that month.
He died in Kien Tuong 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 43E, Line 3
- STEVE ARTHUR BANNERPrivate First Class · March 5, 1968
- JAMES HENRY BANNING JRLance Corporal · March 5, 1968
- ELDRIDGE JACK BATHCorporal · March 5, 1968
- DAVID LOUIS BIDARTSpecialist Four · March 5, 1968
Same unit, same day
- REED JAY SCHWEIGHOFERPrivate First Class · Panel 43E, Line 10
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.