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DONALD LEONARD HELTON
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 10, 1943 – January 18, 1967
Service recordDonald Leonard Helton, of Hamilton, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 18, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14E · Line 48
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- March 10, 1943
- Home of record
- Hamilton, Ohio (Butler County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 18, 1967
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date January 18, 1967; 12 of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 79 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương Province while Operation Cedar Falls was under way. Operation Cedar Falls (8–26 January 1967) sent some 30,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops into the “Iron Triangle” northwest of Saigon to destroy Viet Cong base areas and tunnels. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 14E, Line 48
- RICKEY LEAROY GILLUMPrivate First Class · January 18, 1967
- LEONARD CLARENCE GRAY JRSecond Lieutenant · January 18, 1967
- JERRY DALE HUMPHREYPrivate First Class · January 18, 1967
- GEORGE ALLEN JONES JRPrivate First Class · January 18, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JESUS MAGIN ARCHULETAPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 47
- GARY O BRENNANPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 47
- ROGER SMITH BRYANTPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 47
- LEONARD CLARENCE GRAY JRSecond Lieutenant · Panel 14E, Line 48
- JERRY DALE HUMPHREYPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 48
- JERRY JOSEPH KOLAR JRPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 49
- JOHN DAVIS MCCARTYSpecialist Four · Panel 14E, Line 49
- RONALD JAMES MCCULLOUGHSergeant · Panel 14E, Line 49
- DENNIS RAY ONEALPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 50
- ROBERT LEE PROVENZANOSpecialist Four · Panel 14E, Line 50
- PATTERSON SCOTT JRPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 51
- LEO VINCENT SILBERTPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 51
- CALVIN RAY WILSONPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 51
- TIMOTHY E WORKMANSpecialist Five · Panel 14E, Line 51
From Hamilton
- STANLEY SERGEANT SHAWLieutenant · February 11, 1964
- NELSON EDDIE WILSONPrivate First Class · September 1, 1965
- EUGENE LEE ELLWOODCorporal · October 3, 1965
- LEON PARNELL LAMPLEYPrivate First Class · October 3, 1965
- THOMAS FREDERICK BRUCKChief Petty Officer · January 10, 1966
- THOMAS EDWARD MILESPrivate First Class · March 29, 1966
- PAUL LEWIN CONRADPrivate First Class · May 24, 1966
- SAMUEL LEWIS HUFFMANPrivate First Class · July 25, 1966
- KENNETH RAY BERTSCHSpecialist Four · September 13, 1966
- WALTER MARCUMPrivate First Class · September 29, 1966
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.