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DONALD CHARLES FOUST
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
December 14, 1943 – March 26, 1968
Service recordDonald Charles Foust, of Kokomo, Indiana, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on March 26, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 32
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- AMERICAL DIV
- Born
- December 14, 1943
- Home of record
- Kokomo, Indiana (Howard County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 26, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
87 names on the Wall carry the date March 26, 1968; five of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 31 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Định Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 46E, Line 32
- WILLIAM WARREN DINIROSpecialist Four · March 26, 1968
- MICHAEL ANDREW FAYSpecialist Five · March 26, 1968
- WAYNE JAMES FIELDINGHospitalman · March 26, 1968
- EARL WAYNE FRYEPrivate First Class · March 26, 1968
- JOHNNY EDWARD GANTTSergeant · March 26, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LARRY EARL BARGERSpecialist Four · Panel 46E, Line 28
- HAROLD JOSEPH SIMMONSSpecialist Five · Panel 46E, Line 41
From Kokomo
- JOHN PHILLIP FEWELL JRCaptain · January 28, 1966
- DOUGLAS ARTHUR CLESTERCorporal · June 12, 1966
- JERRY LOUIS SPICERStaff Sergeant · February 3, 1967
- BRUCE ALLEN YODERPrivate First Class · July 2, 1967
- RONNIE M SNIDERSergeant · August 11, 1967
- LARRY STEPHEN NEWBURNCorporal · August 29, 1967
- STEVEN THOMAS RUNYONLance Corporal · December 16, 1967
- LESLIE DAVID MATCHETTSpecialist Four · January 19, 1968
- RAYMOND BROWNSpecialist Four · February 7, 1968
- JOHN EDWARD WALTERSSpecialist Four · April 15, 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.