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DONALD ARTHUR HAUSRATH JR
Second Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps
September 4, 1945 – February 11, 1968
Service recordDonald Arthur Hausrath JR, of Villa Park, California, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 11, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 38E, Line 77 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38E · Line 77
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Second Lieutenant (2NDLT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Officer (I) (0302)
- Born
- September 4, 1945
- Home of record
- Villa Park, California (Orange County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 11, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
44 names on the Wall carry the date February 11, 1968; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 38E, Line 77
- PETER ALAN HILLPrivate First Class · February 11, 1968
- GEORGE JONATHAN HOUSEPrivate First Class · February 11, 1968
- DANNY RAY HOWELLSpecialist Five · February 11, 1968
- GERALD ALBERT HUCZEKCorporal · February 11, 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.