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DONALD CONSTANDE
Gunnery Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
February 16, 1929 – August 12, 1966
Service recordDonald Constande, of Springfield, Massachusetts, served as a Gunnery Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 12, 1966, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 9E, Line 129 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 9E · Line 129
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
- Gunnery Sergeant (GYSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Leader (0369)
- Unit (as recorded)
- H CO 2 BN 5 MAR 1 MARDIV
- Born
- February 16, 1929
- Home of record
- Springfield, Massachusetts (Hampden County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 12, 1966
- Age
- 37
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
14 names on the Wall carry the date August 12, 1966; nine of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In August 1966, 501 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “H CO 2 BN 5 MAR 1 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 9E, Line 129
- JAMES WRIGHTCorporal · August 11, 1966
- DAVID JAY ALLINSONColonel · August 12, 1966
- JOSEPH BERKLEY CROWDERCorporal · August 12, 1966
- ROBERT ORLIFF DAVISPrivate First Class · August 12, 1966
Same unit, same day
- JOHN DONALD WYSZOMIRSKIStaff Sergeant · Panel 9E, Line 132
From Springfield
- WAYNE CARL SIMMONSSpecialist Five · April 1, 1965
- JAMES STEPHEN COCCHIARAPrivate First Class · March 4, 1966
- WILLIAM HADLEY SCHOLESSergeant · April 21, 1966
- RALPH GABRIEL ERDELYLance Corporal · May 12, 1966
- ROBERT NAZAIRE TETREAULTStaff Sergeant · July 9, 1966
- NORMAN CARL FARRISSpecialist Four · November 21, 1966
- RALPH EARLE HINESCaptain · February 19, 1967
- WALTER JOSEPH FITZPATRICKSergeant First Class · March 3, 1967
- GUS STOVALL JRPrivate · March 9, 1967
- RONALD CHARLES HURSTSpecialist Four · April 12, 1967
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.