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DONALD LEE SIMMONS
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
October 14, 1936 – April 14, 1966
Service recordDonald Lee Simmons, of Branson, Missouri, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 14, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 112 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6E · Line 112
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Military Police (95B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- October 14, 1936
- Home of record
- Branson, Missouri (Taney County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 14, 1966
- Age
- 29
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
Ten names on the Wall carry the date April 14, 1966. In April 1966, 406 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 6E, Line 112
- JOHN CLEMENT MAPECommander · April 13, 1966
- JIMMY RAY WOLFESpecialist Four · April 13, 1966
- DENNIS GUY HARMONPrivate First Class · April 14, 1966
- DAVID DARRIN HIGDON JRPrivate First Class · April 14, 1966
Same unit, same day
- BURTON KYLE MCCORDCaptain · Panel 6E, Line 113
From Branson
- JACKIE LEE TATEPrivate First Class · April 8, 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.