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DONALD LEE CHANEY
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
March 7, 1936 – January 17, 1968
Service recordDonald Lee Chaney, of Riverbank, California, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 17, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 62 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34E · Line 62
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- March 7, 1936
- Home of record
- Riverbank, California (Stanislaus County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 17, 1968
- Age
- 31
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date January 17, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 34E, Line 62
- ROBERT LANSING BURRELLSpecialist Four · January 17, 1968
- WILLIE DURANTPrivate First Class · January 17, 1968
- PAUL JOHN GREENWOODSpecialist Four · January 17, 1968
- RONALD LEE STROOMERPrivate First Class · January 17, 1968
From Riverbank
- JIMMY DALE JORDANPrivate First Class · May 17, 1966
- KENNETH LESTER BRESHEARSSpecialist Four · March 31, 1967
- MARIO ALVAREZ CISNEROSPrivate First Class · November 19, 1967
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.