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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Donald Francis Horn.

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DONALD FRANCIS HORN

Seaman · U.S. Navy

October 11, 1949 – September 2, 1969

Service record

Donald Francis Horn, of Barneveld, New York, served as a Seaman in the U.S. Navy. He died on September 2, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 18W · Line 24

Position of Panel 18W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Seaman (SN)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Seaman (SN)
Unit (as recorded)
NMCB 62
Born
October 11, 1949
Home of record
Barneveld, New York (Oneida County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 2, 1969
Age
19
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Burns/Smoke Inhalation

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17 names on the Wall carry the date September 2, 1969; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 18W, Line 24

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.