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DONALD LEE APPLEGATE
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
August 14, 1948 – December 27, 1967
Service recordDonald Lee Applegate, of Loveland, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 27, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 68 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32E · Line 68
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- August 14, 1948
- Home of record
- Loveland, Ohio (Clermont County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 27, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
88 names on the Wall carry the date December 27, 1967; 15 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 32E, Line 68
- JOHN ROBERT ARRINGTONPrivate First Class · December 27, 1967
- RICHARD WAYNE BANNISTERPrivate First Class · December 27, 1967
- LAWRENCE MERRIDITH BARNESLance Corporal · December 27, 1967
- GEORGE BINKOPrivate First Class · December 27, 1967
From Loveland
- JAMES CALEB LAMBERT JRLance Corporal · October 17, 1966
- ERNEST RAY TAYLOR JRSpecialist Five · November 20, 1967
- JERYL LINN WATKINSCorporal · May 2, 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.