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DONALD LEE TEMPLETON
Captain · U.S. Marine Corps
November 13, 1939 – September 21, 1968
Service recordDonald Lee Templeton, of Gallatin, Tennessee, served as a Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 21, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 43W, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43W · Line 58
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
- Captain (CAPT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Pilot Ch-46 Qualified (7562)
- Born
- November 13, 1939
- Home of record
- Gallatin, Tennessee (Sumner County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 21, 1968
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date September 21, 1968; 13 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 43W, Line 58
- MARVIN VINCENT BELLSpecialist Four · September 21, 1968
- RONALD ROBERT STROSCHEINCorporal · September 21, 1968
- THERMALL THOMPSONPrivate First Class · September 21, 1968
- WILLIS ALBERT TOOMESSergeant · September 21, 1968
From Gallatin
- JOHN ROBERT PETTY JRChief Warrant Officer 2 · October 26, 1965
- LARRY DEAN HESSONSpecialist Four · March 3, 1967
- NELSON MONTAGUE ONEALCorporal · January 8, 1968
- PHILIP MARVIN CREWSSergeant · March 3, 1968
- GLENN STANFORD MILLERPrivate First Class · October 16, 1968
- ERIC THOMAS DUFFERPrivate First Class · March 1, 1969
- RALPH DAVID MCMURTRYSpecialist Four · April 13, 1969
- ROBERT LEE TRISDALESergeant First Class · April 26, 1969
- OLLIE EDWARD CRENSHAW JRSpecialist Four · March 29, 1972
- RONALD DWIGHT PERRYCaptain · December 20, 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.