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DONALD JAMES FAWCETT
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
April 10, 1941 – July 3, 1966
Service recordDonald James Fawcett, of Monongahela, Pennsylvania, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 3, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 123 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 8E · Line 123
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- April 10, 1941
- Home of record
- Monongahela, Pennsylvania (Washington County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 3, 1966
- Age
- 25
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date July 3, 1966. In July 1966, 562 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 8E, Line 123
- CURTIS BROCKINGTONPrivate First Class · July 3, 1966
- TOMMIE JOE CAMPBELLPrivate First Class · July 3, 1966
- ROBERT PHILIP CATLINGSpecialist Four · July 3, 1966
- JULIUS COLLINS JRPrivate First Class · July 3, 1966
Same unit, same day
- RALPH JOSEPH RENOMaster Sergeant · Panel 8E, Line 126
- EDWIN JOSEPH MACNAMARAMajor · Panel 8E, Line 127
From Monongahela
- PAUL JOHN PERECKOLieutenant Colonel · February 10, 1967
- DENNIS PATRICK DAYHospitalman · February 2, 1968
- HAROLD RAYMOND VOGELCaptain · June 14, 1968
- THOMAS MILTON LEJEUNEStaff Sergeant · June 5, 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.