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DONALD FRANCIS MCDOWELL
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
August 24, 1945 – December 26, 1967
Service recordDonald Francis McDowell, of Woodbury, New Jersey, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on December 26, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 64 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32E · Line 64
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Signalman (SM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- August 24, 1945
- Home of record
- Woodbury, New Jersey (Gloucester County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 26, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date December 26, 1967; ten of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 32E, Line 64
- BARRY STUART KYLESpecialist Four · December 26, 1967
- DARYL LEE LIGONSFirst Lieutenant · December 26, 1967
- MATTHEW PAUL MALCZYNSKISpecialist Four · December 26, 1967
- LARRY LEE ORCUTTSergeant · December 26, 1967
From Woodbury
- ROBERT PHILIP CATLINGSpecialist Four · July 3, 1966
- FRED CONCETTO SPINALance Corporal · September 11, 1968
- ROBERT WILLIAM ELLIOTTSergeant · August 9, 1970
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.