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DONALD DAVID RANDALL JR
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
May 13, 1945 – May 2, 1968
Service recordDonald David Randall JR, of Detroit, Michigan, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 2, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 54E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 54E · Line 15
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- May 13, 1945
- Home of record
- Detroit, Michigan (Wayne County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 2, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
113 names on the Wall carry the date May 2, 1968; five of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 236 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 54E, Line 15
- JOSEPH CHARLES PICKETT JRCorporal · May 2, 1968
- JEROME PRYORLance Corporal · May 2, 1968
- CHARLES BRADLEY REMER JRPrivate First Class · May 2, 1968
- HUMBERTO REYESLance Corporal · May 2, 1968
Same unit, same day
- BENJAMIN ALLEN HONEYCUTTPrivate First Class · Panel 54E, Line 9
- RONALD JONESCorporal · Panel 54E, Line 9
- THOMAS IRA LONGPrivate First Class · Panel 54E, Line 11
- JAMES DAVIS MOLPUSFirst Lieutenant · Panel 54E, Line 12
- ALLEN DUANE ROWLESSpecialist Four · Panel 54E, Line 16
- CHARLES HERBERT TURNER JRPrivate First Class · Panel 54E, Line 19
From Detroit
- SAMUEL EUGENE HURDAirman Third Class · January 3, 1964
- LEO BERT ABRAMOSKICaptain · July 28, 1964
- GEORGE PAUL ZUPANCICCorporal · June 26, 1965
- MARSHALL DANIEL HOLMANPrivate First Class · July 9, 1965
- ELIAS BELL JRCorporal · July 13, 1965
- ARTHUR F HAMMARSTROM JRLieutenant Colonel · July 24, 1965
- JAMES THOMAS CLARKPrivate · August 17, 1965
- BRUCE JAMES HENRICHPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- ROBERT TAGLIONESergeant · August 18, 1965
- MERRILL LAGENE LANTRYCorporal · September 2, 1965
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.