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DONALD LAWRENCE GOLDSMITH
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 5, 1949 – November 23, 1968
Service recordDonald Lawrence Goldsmith, of Travelers Rest, South Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 23, 1968, in Lam Dong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 38W, Line 42 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38W · Line 42
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)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- August 5, 1949
- Home of record
- Travelers Rest, South Carolina (Greenville County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 23, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Lam Dong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date November 23, 1968; he was the only one lost in Lam Dong Province that day. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 40 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 38W, Line 42
- THOMAS GERALD DICKERSONSpecialist Four · November 23, 1968
- ARNOLD RAYMOND DIEKEMASpecialist Four · November 23, 1968
- ELMER EUGENE FREESECorporal · November 23, 1968
- HAROLD LEE GLOVERCorporal · November 23, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DANIEL LYNN NEISWENDERFirst Lieutenant · Panel 38W, Line 45
From Travelers Rest
- JAMES RAYMOND MCCOYPrivate First Class · September 18, 1968
- ROY LOLLIS LIPSCOMBSergeant · April 29, 1969
- HAROLD GENE MILESSergeant · August 12, 1969
- DAVID WALDEN STATONSergeant · April 30, 1970
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.