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DONALD JOSEPH RION
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
June 19, 1942 – December 10, 1966
Service recordDonald Joseph Rion, of Northbrook, Illinois, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on December 10, 1966, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13E · 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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- June 19, 1942
- Home of record
- Northbrook, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 10, 1966
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date December 10, 1966; 18 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 13E, Line 29
- DAVID MICHAEL JOHNSONPrivate First Class · June 8, 1966
- OWEN FRANCIS NEUMYERSergeant · December 10, 1966
- JERRY KENT PATRICKLance Corporal · December 10, 1966
- MARTIN RUIZ JRPrivate First Class · December 10, 1966
- ROBERT DAVID SAGEPrivate First Class · December 10, 1966
From Northbrook
- DONALD EDWARD KOELPERCaptain · February 16, 1964
- JAMES JAY HEALEYPrivate First Class · November 3, 1966
- ROJELIO BOCANEGRALance Corporal · June 4, 1967
- RAND RUSSELL MERKERWarrant Officer 1 · March 26, 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.