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DONALD LEE PERILLO
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
December 29, 1949 – April 4, 1968
Service recordDonald Lee Perillo, of Blue Island, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 4, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 48E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48E · Line 8
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
- Assaultman (0351)
- Born
- December 29, 1949
- Home of record
- Blue Island, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 4, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date April 4, 1968; 25 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 48E, Line 8
- LAWRENCE ELSTON OSBORNESergeant · April 4, 1968
- DONALD BLAIR PAYSOURCorporal · April 4, 1968
- GEORGE ROBERT PECKHAMLance Corporal · April 4, 1968
- ROBERT RICHARD PERRINSSpecialist Four · April 4, 1968
From Blue Island
- LOUIS XAVIER CABRERA JRPrivate First Class · June 18, 1966
- RAMIRO MANRIQUE JRSpecialist Four · July 11, 1966
- WILLIAM WALLINGFireman · October 26, 1966
- MILTON EMMETT PRESCOTT JRSergeant · April 30, 1967
- ROBERT ALLEN ENGELSENPetty Officer Third Class · May 1, 1968
- JAMES RAYMOND HOCKETTFirst Lieutenant · September 22, 1968
- THOMAS HARRY ROBERTSONSergeant · April 12, 1969
- VERNEL COLLINSSergeant First Class · April 30, 1970
- WAYNE BIBBSPrivate First Class · June 11, 1972
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.