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DONALD DEANE BURRIS JR
Chief Warrant Officer 2 · U.S. Army
December 26, 1946 – December 22, 1969
Service recordDonald Deane Burris JR, of Wayne, Pennsylvania, served as a Chief Warrant Officer 2 in the U.S. Army. He died on December 22, 1969, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 81 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15W · Line 81
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Chief Warrant Officer 2 (CW2)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Attack Helicopter Pilot (100E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 57 AVN CO 52 AVN BN 17
- Born
- December 26, 1946
- Home of record
- Wayne, Pennsylvania (Delaware County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 22, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date December 22, 1969. In December 1969, 509 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 15W, Line 81
- ROBERT ALAN YATESLance Corporal · December 21, 1969
- THADDEUS M YONIKA JRWarrant Officer 1 · December 21, 1969
- FRANK HALL JRLance Corporal · December 22, 1969
- JAMES EDWARD KENNEDYStaff Sergeant · December 22, 1969
From Wayne
- CALVIN KYRLE GRAESER JRSpecialist Four · March 11, 1967
- LAWRENCE JAMES MERSCHELPrivate First Class · May 1, 1968
- WILLIAM A BLEWITT JRPrivate · June 19, 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; panel and line confirmed against the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund’s Wall of Faces because the federal record was incomplete. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.