The WallVietnam Veterans Memorial · The Lake Norman Brief
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Donald Eugene Harp.

The Wall › Panel 31E › Ohio › Donald Eugene Harp

DONALD EUGENE HARP

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

January 18, 1949 – December 6, 1967

Service record

Donald Eugene Harp, of Miamisburg, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 6, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31E · Line 46

Position of Panel 31E 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.

Remember

Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.

Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Machinegunner (0331)
Born
January 18, 1949
Home of record
Miamisburg, Ohio (Montgomery County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 6, 1967
Age
18
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

70 names on the Wall carry the date December 6, 1967; 17 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 31E, Line 46

From Miamisburg

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.