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DONALD LEE HARRISON
Major · U.S. Army
July 24, 1946 – October 29, 1968
Service recordDonald Lee Harrison, of Chamblee, Georgia, served as a Major in the U.S. Army. He was lost on October 29, 1968, in North Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 40W, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40W · Line 53
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
- Major (MAJ)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- July 24, 1946
- Home of record
- Chamblee, Georgia (De Kalb County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- October 29, 1968
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date October 29, 1968. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 38 of its members that month.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 40W, Line 53
- CLYDE RAY CARTER JRCorporal · October 29, 1968
- CLARENCE RAY CHAFFINSpecialist Four · October 29, 1968
- RICHARD CLAYTON EWALDPrivate First Class · October 29, 1968
- RAYMOND JAMES HARSTERPrivate · October 29, 1968
From Chamblee
- THOMAS VINCENT MAYBURYLance Corporal · February 17, 1968
- CHARLES HOWARD RAMPLEYSpecialist Four · March 7, 1968
- LARRY RICHARD TODDSergeant · April 26, 1968
- MORRIS A MALLARD JRSergeant First Class · August 7, 1968
- RONALD FRANK GREENSergeant · September 26, 1968
- WOLFRAM J KRETSCHMANNPrivate First Class · February 23, 1969
- BILLY GENE CREECHFirst Lieutenant · March 6, 1969
- JAMES ALTON COWAN JRSergeant · June 18, 1969
- MAJOR BOONE MORGAN JRCorporal · August 21, 1969
- HOWARD EUGENE WILLIAMS JRStaff Sergeant · December 7, 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.