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DONALD LEE VOORHEES
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
May 12, 1933 – May 2, 1970
Service recordDonald Lee Voorhees, of Raleigh, North Carolina, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 2, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 11W, Line 89 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 11W · Line 89
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- May 12, 1933
- Home of record
- Raleigh, North Carolina (Wake County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 2, 1970
- Age
- 36
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Died of other causes
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date May 2, 1970; five of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 170 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 11W, Line 89
- RAYMOND NOVELL TAYLORSpecialist Four · May 2, 1970
- MICHAEL BANARD VARNADOChief Warrant Officer 2 · May 2, 1970
- ROBERT MILTON YOUNGCaptain · May 2, 1970
- WILLIE BEDFORDPrivate · May 3, 1970
Same unit, same day
- HAROLD GLEN CRAFTSergeant · Panel 11W, Line 83
- LARRY HERRERASergeant · Panel 11W, Line 85
- DANIEL COPE JOHNSONSpecialist Four · Panel 11W, Line 85
- LEO JOHN LUDVIGSEN JRStaff Sergeant · Panel 11W, Line 86
From Raleigh
- WILLIAM EDWARD DAVIS JRSecond Lieutenant · December 10, 1965
- CHARLES EDWARD ALSTONPrivate First Class · January 25, 1966
- LEE ARTHUR MOORE JRSpecialist Four · March 30, 1966
- EDWARD SHEPHERDPlatoon Sergeant · May 21, 1966
- JOHN B DAVIS IIISpecialist Four · July 7, 1966
- WAYLAND DUNN JRSergeant · August 14, 1966
- LEON GORDON CHADWICK IIICaptain · November 14, 1966
- JAMES EDWARD OXLEYFirst Lieutenant · November 26, 1966
- SAMUEL ADAMS JAMES JRFirst Lieutenant · December 4, 1966
- DONALD FRANK RHODESPrivate · January 7, 1967
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.