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DONALD EDWARD WALTERS JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 31, 1947 – May 22, 1967
Service recordDonald Edward Walters JR, of Des Plaines, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 22, 1967, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 88 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20E · Line 88
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
- Armor Crewman (11E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- December 31, 1947
- Home of record
- Des Plaines, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 22, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date May 22, 1967; 12 of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 28 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20E, Line 88
- PETER LYLE VALENCICHSergeant · May 22, 1967
- RONALD WAYNE WARDPrivate First Class · May 22, 1967
- KENNETH GLEN WORMANPrivate First Class · May 22, 1967
- BOBBIE MAXSEN AUTONSpecialist Four · May 23, 1967
From Des Plaines
- LEONARD J LEWANDOWSKI JRSergeant · October 19, 1966
- JAMES THOMAS RENZPrivate First Class · December 29, 1966
- ROBERT EDWIN MATSONSpecialist Four · January 21, 1967
- MICHAEL STEVEN BRYANTPrivate First Class · January 27, 1967
- RALPH LAURENCE CARLOCKMajor · March 4, 1967
- JAMES MILTON ALBRIGHTLieutenant · March 10, 1967
- JAMES T DONAHUE JRWarrant Officer 1 · September 22, 1967
- THOMAS PATRICK KLAUSINGPrivate First Class · April 28, 1968
- BRIAN JEFFREY CANNADAPrivate First Class · May 6, 1968
- PATRICK CARLISLE RIORDANPrivate First Class · May 19, 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.