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DONALD EUGENE POWLES
Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
August 24, 1945 – September 13, 1968
Service recordDonald Eugene Powles, of Red Oak, Iowa, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 13, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 44W, Line 52 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44W · 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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Cannoneer (0811)
- Born
- August 24, 1945
- Home of record
- Red Oak, Iowa (Montgomery County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 13, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
58 names on the Wall carry the date September 13, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 44W, Line 52
- CHARLES ALBERT NOLAN JRSpecialist Four · September 13, 1968
- MANUEL GALVAN ORTIZSpecialist Four · September 13, 1968
- ANTHONY PASQUALE PATRICCASpecialist Four · September 13, 1968
- ERNEST DELBERT PEINASpecialist Four · September 13, 1968
From Red Oak
- THOMAS LEROY POLLARDMajor · August 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.