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DONALD EARL BEAR
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
April 21, 1942 – July 8, 1968
Service recordDonald Earl Bear, of Mountain View, Oklahoma, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 8, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 53W, Line 42 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 53W · Line 42
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- April 21, 1942
- Home of record
- Mountain View, Oklahoma (Kiowa County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 8, 1968
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date July 8, 1968; four of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 80 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 53W, Line 42
- VAUGHN LEE BROWNPrivate First Class · July 8, 1968
- ROBERT NELSON BURROUGHSPrivate First Class · July 8, 1968
- CRAIG JESSE DEVORESergeant · July 8, 1968
- WILLIAM ROBERT HOPKINSSergeant · July 8, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CRAIG JESSE DEVORESergeant · Panel 53W, Line 42
- JAMES DAVID NANSELPrivate First Class · Panel 53W, Line 44
- WILLIAM IRVIN TURNER JRSergeant · Panel 52W, Line 2
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.