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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Donald Earl Cutler.

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DONALD EARL CUTLER

Private First Class · U.S. Army

December 20, 1944 – September 3, 1967

Service record

Donald Earl Cutler, of Marion, Indiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 3, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 91 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 25E · Line 91

Position of Panel 25E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
11 ARMORED CAV
Born
December 20, 1944
Home of record
Marion, Indiana (Grant County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 3, 1967
Age
22
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

20 names on the Wall carry the date September 3, 1967. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 25E, Line 91

From Marion

All 19 names from Marion →

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.