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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 Fred Fee.

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DONALD FRED FEE

Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy

December 24, 1944 – July 21, 1967

Service record

Donald Fred Fee, of Big Stone Gap, Virginia, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on July 21, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 99 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 23E · Line 99

Position of Panel 23E 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.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Aviation Machinist's Mate (AD)
Born
December 24, 1944
Home of record
Big Stone Gap, Virginia (Wise County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 21, 1967
Age
22
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

50 names on the Wall carry the date July 21, 1967; eight of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 23E, Line 99

From Big Stone Gap

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.