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DONALD LEWIS MERRY
Captain · U.S. Air Force
October 26, 1928 – May 5, 1968
Service recordDonald Lewis Merry, of Pass-A-Grille Beach, Florida, served as a Captain in the U.S. Air Force. He died on May 5, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 39. His name is inscribed on Panel 55E, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 55E · Line 23
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Captain (CAPT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Born
- October 26, 1928
- Home of record
- Pass-A-Grille Beach, Florida (Pinellas County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 5, 1968
- Age
- 39
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
189 names on the Wall carry the date May 5, 1968; 20 of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 55E, Line 23
- LLOYD LOCKETTPrivate First Class · May 5, 1968
- KENNETH EDWARD MESSENGERChief Warrant Officer 2 · May 5, 1968
- DONALD RAY MOCKPrivate First Class · May 5, 1968
- MICHAEL MOMCILOVICH JRCaptain · May 5, 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.