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DON ELDRIDGE TURNER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
June 14, 1948 – December 7, 1968
Service recordDon Eldridge Turner, of Dorchester, Massachusetts, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 7, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 60 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 60
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- June 14, 1948
- Home of record
- Dorchester, Massachusetts (Suffolk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 7, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date December 7, 1968; 21 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 60
- FEDERICO MATIAS-SANTANAPrivate First Class · December 7, 1968
- JOHN A VIALPANDOPrivate First Class · December 7, 1968
- JOHN LOUIS WAUGHPrivate First Class · December 7, 1968
- MICHAEL ROBERT BACHPrivate First Class · December 8, 1968
From Dorchester
- JACK RABINOVITZCorporal · February 23, 1966
- PATRICK JOSEPH KELLY JRSergeant · February 28, 1966
- MICHAEL DAVID BURTPrivate First Class · June 1, 1966
- THOMAS JOSEPH KANEPrivate · September 21, 1966
- JOSEPH ROBERT WALLENLance Corporal · January 26, 1967
- MARK MICHAEL MCLAUGHLINPrivate First Class · February 18, 1967
- WAVERIE HUGH BUCHANANLance Corporal · March 17, 1967
- FREDERICK ALFRED MCMAHONCorporal · May 4, 1967
- GERALD FRANCIS MCDONALDCorporal · May 26, 1967
- JOHN PATRICK COLLOPYPrivate First Class · July 15, 1967
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.