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DONALD LEE BAKER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
March 11, 1947 – September 6, 1967
Service recordDonald Lee Baker, of Huntington Park, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 6, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26E · 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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- March 11, 1947
- Home of record
- Huntington Park, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 6, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
80 names on the Wall carry the date September 6, 1967; 47 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 26E, Line 5
- KENNETH J KRAUSESpecialist Four · September 5, 1967
- TERRY CHARLES WILLIAMSSergeant · September 5, 1967
- REID CARLTON ARNOLDCorporal · September 6, 1967
- JESSIE LEE BARLOWStaff Sergeant · September 6, 1967
From Huntington Park
- DAVID LUIS GALANPrivate First Class · January 25, 1966
- STEVEN CRAIG PATTERSONLance Corporal · March 22, 1967
- DENNIS WILLIAM PETERSONLieutenant · July 19, 1967
- CHARLES DAVID HOMLieutenant (junior grade) · August 17, 1967
- GALE ROBERT SIOWPetty Officer Third Class · January 11, 1968
- JOSEPH ANTHONY JANOWICZSpecialist Four · April 14, 1968
- JOSEPH RALPH FRANCKOWIAKCorporal · July 27, 1968
- DAVID VERNON MCCOLLUMPrivate First Class · August 29, 1968
- GEORGE FLOHR JRPrivate First Class · October 5, 1968
- JOSEPH YBARRA RAMIREZ JRPrivate First Class · January 30, 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.