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DONALD LEE LEHEW
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
July 19, 1934 – August 26, 1966
Service recordDonald Lee Lehew, of Salem, New Jersey, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 26, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10E · Line 48
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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
- July 19, 1934
- Home of record
- Salem, New Jersey (Salem County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 26, 1966
- Age
- 32
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date August 26, 1966. In August 1966, 501 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 10E, Line 48
- DONALD ALLEN LEWISSergeant · August 26, 1966
- JAMES EDWARD REIDPrivate First Class · August 26, 1966
- ARTHUR BENJAMIN SCARBROUGHPrivate First Class · August 26, 1966
- DONALD VEARL STEINPrivate First Class · August 26, 1966
Same unit, same day
- JULES T GIRTANNERSpecialist Four · Panel 10E, Line 46
From Salem
- CLAUDE WILLIAM MCBRIDEStaff Sergeant · August 23, 1963
- CHARLES FREDRICK COINERPrivate First Class · March 3, 1966
- ALEXANDER COLES JRHospitalman · January 23, 1967
- DONALD LEE HUNTERPrivate First Class · January 27, 1968
- ROBERT THOMAS FERRELLIPrivate First Class · March 18, 1968
- THOMAS HUBERT JONESPrivate First Class · June 11, 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.