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DONALD GILES WAIDE
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
November 18, 1945 – May 7, 1968
Service recordDonald Giles Waide, of Clayton, New Mexico, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 7, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 56E, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 56E · Line 33
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- November 18, 1945
- Home of record
- Clayton, New Mexico (Union County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 7, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date May 7, 1968; four of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 70 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 56E, Line 33
- JERON FRANKLIN VALENTINEPrivate · May 7, 1968
- GEORGE M VICTORSergeant First Class · May 7, 1968
- GEORGE THOMAS LLOY WALKERCorporal · May 7, 1968
- DONALD WINSLOW WILLIAMSCorporal · May 7, 1968
Same unit, same day
- MICHAEL ANTHONY GEROMESergeant · Panel 56E, Line 23
From Clayton
- RUSSELL JAMES HOLLANDCorporal · February 25, 1969
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.