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DONALD JOSEPH TRAMPSKI
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 16, 1948 – September 16, 1969
Service recordDonald Joseph Trampski, of Chesterton, Indiana, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He was lost on September 16, 1969, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 98 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18W · Line 98
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- August 16, 1948
- Home of record
- Chesterton, Indiana (Porter County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- September 16, 1969
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Presumed Dead
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- First reported
- Missing
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date September 16, 1969; eight of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 28 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 18W, Line 98
- ALFRED GEORGE SAPP SRColonel · September 16, 1969
- ROBERT EUGENE SCHMITZSergeant · September 16, 1969
- JAMES LENVER SELDONPrivate First Class · September 16, 1969
- ELISEO VERGARACorporal · September 16, 1969
Same unit, same day
- FREEMAN ABRAHAM CARRCaptain · Panel 18W, Line 93
- JOHN JOSEPH KALENCaptain · Panel 18W, Line 95
- WALTER STANLEY OLINSKY JRWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 18W, Line 96
- ALFRED GEORGE SAPP SRColonel · Panel 18W, Line 98
- ROBERT EUGENE SCHMITZSergeant · Panel 18W, Line 98
From Chesterton
- FREDDY RAY GOREPrivate First Class · July 13, 1967
- WILLIAM LEEAirman · July 29, 1967
- LOREN ELWOOD LONGSpecialist Five · August 23, 1968
- WILSON FITZGERALD HALLEYFirst Lieutenant · November 27, 1968
- TERRANCE DEAN J FRANCISSpecialist Four · January 10, 1969
- LARRY ALLAN RIPPESpecialist Four · May 27, 1970
- MARK RANDALL TAYLORSpecialist Four · June 2, 1971
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.