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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Don William Linthicum.

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DON WILLIAM LINTHICUM

Private First Class · U.S. Army

November 8, 1946 – October 6, 1967

Service record

Don William Linthicum, of Sarasota, Florida, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 6, 1967, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 60 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 27E · Line 60

Position of Panel 27E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
November 8, 1946
Home of record
Sarasota, Florida (Sarasota County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 6, 1967
Age
20
Province
Dinh Tuong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

31 names on the Wall carry the date October 6, 1967; nine of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 42 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 27E, Line 60

Same unit, same day

From Sarasota

All 28 names from Sarasota →

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.