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DON EARL ALLEY
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
September 18, 1946 – September 5, 1966
Service recordDon Earl Alley, of Church Hill, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 5, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10E · Line 69
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- September 18, 1946
- Home of record
- Church Hill, Tennessee (Hawkins County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 5, 1966
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
11 names on the Wall carry the date September 5, 1966; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 10E, Line 69
- HARVEY LYN ROWLANDPrivate First Class · September 4, 1966
- RAYMOND PAUL SALZARULO JRCaptain · September 4, 1966
- EDWARD ARNOLD SHELTONPrivate First Class · September 4, 1966
From Church Hill
- GARY STEVEN ROWLETTPrivate First Class · March 16, 1967
- FREDDIE DARREL FORDSergeant · January 7, 1968
- GARY MICHAEL CARTERPrivate First Class · April 3, 1968
- CONLEY ARLEN BRADSHAWSpecialist Four · June 2, 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.