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DONALD GLENN DROZ
Lieutenant (junior grade) · U.S. Navy
September 29, 1943 – April 12, 1969
Service recordDonald Glenn Droz, of Rich Hill, Missouri, served as a Lieutenant (junior grade) in the U.S. Navy. He died on April 12, 1969, in An Xugen Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 63 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 63
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
- Lieutenant (junior grade) (LTJG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Url No Warfare Specialty (1100)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- September 29, 1943
- Home of record
- Rich Hill, Missouri (Bates County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 12, 1969
- Age
- 25
- Province
- An Xugen
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date April 12, 1969; three of them were lost in An Xugen Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27W, Line 63
- FELIX ANTONIO CALDERONSergeant · April 12, 1969
- JEFFREY STEPHEN DYERPrivate First Class · April 12, 1969
- STEPHEN MICHAEL FRYLance Corporal · April 12, 1969
- FREDRICK MERVYN HALLCaptain · April 12, 1969
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS EUGENE HOLLOWAYPetty Officer Third Class · Panel 27W, Line 64
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.