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DONALD GRAY SMITH
Private First Class · U.S. Army
October 18, 1949 – June 12, 1968
Service recordDonald Gray Smith, of Walnut Cove, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 12, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 57W, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 57W · Line 4
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- October 18, 1949
- Home of record
- Walnut Cove, North Carolina (Stokes County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 12, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date June 12, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 42 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 57W, Line 4
- ALAN DAVID LYLEPrivate First Class · June 12, 1968
- EDWARD DRAKE SCOTTLance Corporal · June 12, 1968
- HERBERT WILLIAM SCOTT IIIWarrant Officer 1 · June 12, 1968
- TERRY HUGH SMITHSergeant · June 12, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CLIFFORD JENKINS JRSpecialist Four · Panel 58W, Line 32
From Walnut Cove
- VERNON TERRY BULLINHospitalman · December 28, 1968
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.