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DONALD EDWARD FLETCHER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
April 30, 1949 – July 26, 1969
Service recordDonald Edward Fletcher, of Mount Airy, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 26, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 52 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · Line 52
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
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- April 30, 1949
- Home of record
- Mount Airy, North Carolina (Surry County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 26, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
34 names on the Wall carry the date July 26, 1969; 11 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 20W, Line 52
- ROBERT JOSEPH RUNSERPrivate First Class · July 26, 1969
- MICHAEL OLIVER THOMASSergeant · July 26, 1969
- GARY LYNN TINKERSergeant · July 26, 1969
- HARVEY RAYMOND WATSONCorporal · July 26, 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.