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DONALD EARL GORE
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
April 3, 1946 – June 26, 1966
Service recordDonald Earl Gore, of Ventura, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 26, 1966, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 97 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 8E · Line 97
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (1371)
- Unit (as recorded)
- B CO 3 ENG BN 3 MARDIV
- Born
- April 3, 1946
- Home of record
- Ventura, California (Ventura County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 26, 1966
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date June 26, 1966; five of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In June 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 8E, Line 97
- IVOR ECAROL BUNCHPrivate First Class · June 26, 1966
- JAMES COLEMAN JRCorporal · June 26, 1966
- THOMAS EARL EDDYCaptain · June 26, 1966
- RONALD CARL FORSBACHPrivate First Class · June 26, 1966
From Ventura
- JAMES CLETUS DYESeaman Recruit · May 29, 1964
- MICHAEL PERRY MORITZSpecialist Five · June 16, 1965
- ROBERT LOUIS PADILLASergeant · May 17, 1966
- CREIGHTON ROBERT DUNNSpecialist Four · October 29, 1966
- JOHN EDWARD WIDENERPrivate First Class · December 11, 1966
- KENNETH CHARLES APPLEGATESpecialist Four · April 30, 1967
- FRANK ROSS ALLENDER JRLance Corporal · July 3, 1967
- SIEGFRIED KOFLERSergeant · July 10, 1967
- DONALD MELVIN SEWELLColonel · November 9, 1967
- MICHAEL WAYNE HASKINSHospitalman · February 1, 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. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.