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DONALD JOE BOAZ
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 19, 1948 – April 12, 1968
Service recordDonald Joe Boaz, of Gainesville, Texas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 12, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 49E, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49E · Line 29
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- August 19, 1948
- Home of record
- Gainesville, Texas (Cooke County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 12, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
51 names on the Wall carry the date April 12, 1968; six of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 189 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 49E, Line 29
- EDWARD COE BECKWITHSpecialist Four · April 12, 1968
- BILLY JAMES BROWNCorporal · April 12, 1968
- CARL LEONARD CARLSONPrivate First Class · April 12, 1968
- ROBERT SAMUEL CLARK JRStaff Sergeant · April 12, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CARL LEONARD CARLSONPrivate First Class · Panel 49E, Line 29
- JACK WAYNE HESSSpecialist Four · Panel 49E, Line 32
- BYRON NORRIS JONESSpecialist Four · Panel 49E, Line 33
- MICHAEL WESLEY MILLERPrivate First Class · Panel 49E, Line 34
- JONES EUGENE TOMLINSONPrivate First Class · Panel 49E, Line 37
From Gainesville
- JERRY LYNE STEEDSpecialist Four · June 24, 1967
- THOMAS NEAL BREWERLance Corporal · January 7, 1968
- JOE LESLIE BIFFLE JRSpecialist Four · January 21, 1968
- WILLIE OVERSTREET JRSpecialist Five · June 11, 1968
- JERRY DON GIBBSPrivate First Class · December 30, 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.