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DONALD LINCOLN COVINGTON
Private First Class · U.S. Army
February 26, 1945 – July 8, 1969
Service recordDonald Lincoln Covington, of Hamlet, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 8, 1969, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 81 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21W · Line 81
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- February 26, 1945
- Home of record
- Hamlet, North Carolina (Richmond County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 8, 1969
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date July 8, 1969; he was the only one lost in Long An Province that day. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 21W, Line 81
- VIRGIL ALLEN CALKINS JRSpecialist Four · July 8, 1969
- RUSSELL BERTON CARSONSergeant · July 8, 1969
- CHARLES PERRY CHANDLERSergeant · July 8, 1969
- GERALD SELAH COLVINPrivate First Class · July 8, 1969
From Hamlet
- JAMES ARTHUR ASHECRAFTPrivate First Class · December 28, 1966
- LUTHER HARRIS HOWARDSpecialist Four · June 30, 1967
- LONNIE ELLERBE JRLance Corporal · August 13, 1968
- NOAH LELAND SMITHPrivate First Class · November 23, 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.