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DONALD EDWARD BEATTY
Sergeant · U.S. Army
December 10, 1942 – May 27, 1968
Service recordDonald Edward Beatty, of Rochester, New York, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 27, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 65W, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 65W · Line 4
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 (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 82 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- December 10, 1942
- Home of record
- Rochester, New York (Monroe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 27, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
78 names on the Wall carry the date May 27, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 82nd Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 32 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 65W, Line 4
- NIKOLA BABICHLance Corporal · May 27, 1968
- THOMAS EDWARD BAGLINISpecialist Four · May 27, 1968
- WILLIAM JOSEPH BALLINGERMajor · May 27, 1968
- CHARLES THOMAS COATSLance Corporal · May 27, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RONALD WAYNE HERRENCorporal · Panel 65W, Line 9
From Rochester
- EUGENE RICHARDSONAirman First Class · October 24, 1964
- JOHN E EHRMENTRAUT JRPrivate First Class · April 24, 1965
- ALBERT S KNIGHT IIILance Corporal · June 22, 1965
- JOHN BERNARD TETTEPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- GEORGE STEPHEN BALAZYPrivate First Class · September 12, 1965
- JOSEPH CHRISTIANOColonel · December 24, 1965
- NOEL MICHAEL BARTOLFPrivate First Class · January 2, 1966
- NICHOLES SOCHACKIPrivate First Class · February 25, 1966
- RICHARD FLOYD SMITHPrivate First Class · March 16, 1966
- ROBERT JULIUS VANREYPENPrivate First Class · March 27, 1966
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.