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DONALD JEROME RICE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 10, 1947 – January 23, 1970
Service recordDonald Jerome Rice, of Gay, Georgia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 23, 1970, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 14W, Line 60 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14W · Line 60
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- June 10, 1947
- Home of record
- Gay, Georgia (Meriwether County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 23, 1970
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Phuoc Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date January 23, 1970; two of them were lost in Phuoc Long Province. In January 1970, 529 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 14W, Line 60
- WILLIAM H BARTHOLOMEW JRStaff Sergeant · January 23, 1970
- MALCOLM JONATHAN GRIMPrivate · January 23, 1970
- FRANK DALE HAMMONDPrivate First Class · January 23, 1970
- WILLIAM EUGENE SEMPLESergeant · January 23, 1970
Same unit, same day
- FRANK DALE HAMMONDPrivate First Class · Panel 14W, Line 60
From Gay
- TONY LEE ONEALCorporal · October 9, 1969
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.