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DONALD HENRY MONAT JR
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
May 8, 1942 – April 25, 1967
Service recordDonald Henry Monat JR, of Galion, Ohio, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on April 25, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 87 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 87
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
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- May 8, 1942
- Home of record
- Galion, Ohio (Crawford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 25, 1967
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date April 25, 1967; 13 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 87
- CHARLES SARGENT MOORECaptain · April 25, 1967
- CHARLES MARION NEAL JRLance Corporal · April 25, 1967
- STEPHEN CARL NELSONPrivate First Class · April 25, 1967
- RICHARD CHESTER PRATTPrivate First Class · April 25, 1967
From Galion
- ROBERT JACOB MILLER JRPrivate First Class · August 23, 1968
- STEVEN MICHAEL BRITTONSpecialist Four · February 4, 1969
- WILLIAM F UNCKRICHCaptain · October 10, 1969
- RONDALL PRESTON SPEARSPrivate First Class · October 15, 1969
- DAVID WESLEY SULSERSpecialist Four · May 10, 1972
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.