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DONALD GENE LEWIS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 15, 1949 – November 25, 1968
Service recordDonald Gene Lewis, of Stanton, Nebraska, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 25, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 38W, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38W · Line 58
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. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- May 15, 1949
- Home of record
- Stanton, Nebraska (Stanton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 25, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date November 25, 1968; five of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 76 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 38W, Line 58
- ROBERT EDWARD HOSKINSLance Corporal · November 25, 1968
- KURT CHRISTOPHER HUSSMANNLance Corporal · November 25, 1968
- FREDRICK BEN KINGSergeant · November 25, 1968
- JAMES EDWARD KINGSergeant · November 25, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD KENNETH CHILTONPrivate First Class · Panel 38W, Line 56
- ROBERT GENTRY HODGESPrivate First Class · Panel 38W, Line 57
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.