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DONALD EARL BOSTON
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
April 21, 1943 – April 7, 1967
Service recordDonald Earl Boston, of Sheffield, Alabama, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on April 7, 1967, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 114 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 114
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Interior Comm Electrician (IC)
- Born
- April 21, 1943
- Home of record
- Sheffield, Alabama (Colbert County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 7, 1967
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date April 7, 1967; two of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 114
- GEORGE M HARRINGTONSpecialist Five · April 6, 1967
- CONRAD EARL POOLESpecialist Five · April 6, 1967
- ABELARDO ARAUJOPrivate First Class · April 7, 1967
- HENRY HWEY GAMBLECorporal · April 7, 1967
From Sheffield
- THOMAS MANUEL DILLARDSpecialist Five · February 20, 1966
- FARLEY DEE THOMPSONMajor · December 23, 1966
- EARL DILLWORTH JRLance Corporal · May 1, 1967
- GARY RAY WIGINTONPrivate First Class · March 25, 1968
- PRESTON LEE HOWELLSergeant · May 9, 1968
- CLIFFORD C WALKERSpecialist Four · August 20, 1968
- HOWARD BROWN HANDLEYStaff Sergeant · September 13, 1968
- DAVID ROLLAND JACKSONWarrant Officer 1 · September 25, 1969
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.