The Wall › Panel 49E › Maine › Donald Lewis Mansfield
DONALD LEWIS MANSFIELD
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
July 18, 1949 – April 13, 1968
Service recordDonald Lewis Mansfield, of Rockland, Maine, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 13, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 49E, Line 45 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49E · Line 45
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- July 18, 1949
- Home of record
- Rockland, Maine (Knox County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 13, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
60 names on the Wall carry the date April 13, 1968; 26 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 49E, Line 45
- RICHARD ALLEN ESTRADAFirst Lieutenant · April 13, 1968
- GERALD CRAWFORD MULLPrivate First Class · April 13, 1968
- JOHN EDWARD NELSONSergeant · April 13, 1968
- JAMES LEONARD PARKER JRPrivate First Class · April 13, 1968
From Rockland
- ANTHONY JOHN GUSTINSergeant First Class · July 7, 1966
- LYNN JORDAN RUSSELLSpecialist Four · November 5, 1966
- EARLE EUGEN MCAULIFFE JRPetty Officer Second Class · July 29, 1967
- MALCOLM PIERCE LIBBEYStaff Sergeant · October 12, 1967
- LINWOOD PRESTON RICKARDSGunnery Sergeant · July 9, 1968
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.