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DONALD HAROLD SCHMIDT
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 26, 1947 – March 25, 1968
Service recordDonald Harold Schmidt, of St Paul, Minnesota, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 25, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 23
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 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- September 26, 1947
- Home of record
- St Paul, Minnesota (Ramsey County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 25, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
64 names on the Wall carry the date March 25, 1968; 15 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 104 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 46E, Line 23
- DANIEL C RUNKLESpecialist Five · March 25, 1968
- HOWARD LEROY SAVAREPrivate First Class · March 25, 1968
- GILBERT SERRANOPrivate First Class · March 25, 1968
- EDWARD CLARENCE SHELDONSergeant · March 25, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LEONARD E BORCHARD JRPrivate First Class · Panel 46E, Line 14
- JOHN MICHAEL CASEYCaptain · Panel 46E, Line 14
- LOUIS MAGIN GARCIACorporal · Panel 46E, Line 16
- JOHN DAVID HARPER JRPrivate First Class · Panel 46E, Line 17
- RICHARD EDWARD HEILSpecialist Four · Panel 46E, Line 17
- DOWARD LEROY JONES JRStaff Sergeant · Panel 46E, Line 19
- MICHAEL JAMES KELLEYSpecialist Five · Panel 46E, Line 19
- PATRICK C MCILROYPrivate First Class · Panel 46E, Line 21
- DAVID THOMAS ORWIG IIISpecialist Four · Panel 46E, Line 22
- ROBERT DOUGLAS ROBINSONPrivate First Class · Panel 46E, Line 22
- GILBERT SERRANOPrivate First Class · Panel 46E, Line 23
- JOHN OTIS SHERRILLSecond Lieutenant · Panel 46E, Line 24
- DENNIS KARL SHOWERSSpecialist Four · Panel 46E, Line 24
- RONALD SOCKEYSpecialist Four · Panel 46E, Line 24
- JOSEPH THOMAS TANGARIEPrivate First Class · Panel 46E, Line 24
- FLOYD NICKOLAS THOMANSpecialist Four · Panel 46E, Line 25
- HERBERT F WELTZ JRSpecialist Five · Panel 46E, Line 25
- BROADUS ALFRED WHITTPrivate First Class · Panel 46E, Line 25
From St Paul
- RAYMOND CHARLES WILDEChief Warrant Officer 2 · January 11, 1963
- DAVID MICHAEL HALBAUERStaff Sergeant · October 13, 1965
- JOHN CALVIN ELZY IIIPrivate First Class · November 16, 1965
- ROBERT E WALDVOGELSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- ARLIN ROGER JENSENSpecialist Four · November 19, 1965
- JOHN WALTER WILSON JRPrivate First Class · December 10, 1965
- KALE ARLAN SOLBERGPrivate First Class · February 1, 1966
- JOSEPH SAMUEL HERRONPrivate First Class · March 4, 1966
- DAVID JOSEPH KERNPrivate First Class · April 1, 1966
- LAVERN GEORGE REILLYColonel · May 15, 1966
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.