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DONALD L MUSSELMAN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 22, 1944 – April 29, 1968
Service recordDonald L Musselman, of Tulelake, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 29, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 53E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 53E · Line 5
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
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- ENGINEERING CMD
- Born
- September 22, 1944
- Home of record
- Tulelake, California (Siskiyou County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 29, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
55 names on the Wall carry the date April 29, 1968; eight of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “ENGINEERING CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 53E, Line 5
- GEORGE LATHANPrivate First Class · April 29, 1968
- ARTHUR F MCQUADE JRSpecialist Four · April 29, 1968
- HURIEL LEE MOOREPrivate First Class · April 29, 1968
- THOMAS ALLEN NYSTROMPrivate First Class · April 29, 1968
From Tulelake
- LARRY DEAN SUEDMYER IIISergeant · April 4, 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.