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DONALD CHARLES VOLTNER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
March 24, 1948 – February 28, 1969
Service recordDonald Charles Voltner, of St Francis, Wisconsin, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 28, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 31W, Line 97 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31W · Line 97
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- March 24, 1948
- Home of record
- St Francis, Wisconsin (Milwaukee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 28, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
57 names on the Wall carry the date February 28, 1969; ten of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 31W, Line 97
- RONALD LEE KIELPIKOWSKIFirst Lieutenant · February 28, 1969
- BYRON LEE TENNANTSecond Lieutenant · February 28, 1969
- STANLEY EUGENE URPrivate First Class · February 28, 1969
- GLEN ORVILLE VENETSpecialist Four · February 28, 1969
From St Francis
- CHARLES JOHN TREWEEKCorporal · May 27, 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.