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DON LE ROY DEATHRAGE JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 24, 1947 – June 17, 1967
Service recordDon Le Roy Deathrage JR, of Ozark, Missouri, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 17, 1967, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 119 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21E · Line 119
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- February 24, 1947
- Home of record
- Ozark, Missouri (Christian County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 17, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
68 names on the Wall carry the date June 17, 1967; two of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 78 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 21E, Line 119
- ROBERT LEOPOLD CLUKEY JRSpecialist Five · June 17, 1967
- HERMAN GERALD EBBINGACaptain · June 17, 1967
- RONALD DAVID EDENFIELDPrivate First Class · June 17, 1967
- JAMES MELVIN ELCHERTPrivate First Class · June 17, 1967
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD LEE JENNERPrivate First Class · Panel 21E, Line 122
- LARRY EUGENE WILSONPrivate First Class · Panel 22E, Line 5
From Ozark
- DAVID EUGENE WARDPrivate First Class · October 21, 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.