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Australian, American, South Vietnamese and Korean soldiers at the Đức Mỹ Ranger Training Center, December 1965.
Australian, American, South Vietnamese and Korean soldiers at the Đức Mỹ Ranger Training Center, December 1965. Photo: SP5 Allan K. Holm, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Donald Allan Mollicone.

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DONALD ALLAN MOLLICONE

First Lieutenant · U.S. Air Force

October 23, 1937 – December 20, 1963

Service record

Donald Allan Mollicone, of New York, New York, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. He died on December 20, 1963, in Ba Xugen Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 39 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 1E · Line 39

Position of Panel 1E 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. Air Force
Rank
First Lieutenant (1STLT)
Service
Regular
Born
October 23, 1937
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 20, 1963
Age
26
Province
Ba Xugen
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

Two names on the Wall carry the date December 20, 1963; two of them were lost in Ba Xugen Province. In December 1963, 23 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 1E, Line 39

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.