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DONALD LOUIS RISSI
Lieutenant Colonel · U.S. Air Force
March 20, 1931 – December 18, 1972
Service recordDonald Louis Rissi, of Collinsville, Illinois, served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force. He died on December 18, 1972, in North Vietnam, at age 41. His name is inscribed on Panel 1W, Line 95 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 1W · Line 95
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
- Lieutenant Colonel (LTCOL)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- March 20, 1931
- Home of record
- Collinsville, Illinois (Madison County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 18, 1972
- Age
- 41
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
Five names on the Wall carry the date December 18, 1972. In December 1972, 75 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in North Vietnam while Linebacker II was under way. In Linebacker II (18–29 December 1972), B-52s and fighter-bombers struck Hanoi and Haiphong for eleven days; fifteen B-52s were lost to SA-2 missiles before North Vietnam returned to the Paris talks.
Read the history
Also on Panel 1W, Line 95
- ROBERT JAMES THOMASCaptain · December 18, 1972
- RONALD JACK WARDColonel · December 18, 1972
- RICHARD WALLER COOPER JRMajor · December 19, 1972
- DONALD ANDREW DIXChief Petty Officer · December 19, 1972
From Collinsville
- CHARLES BERNARD LANKFORDStaff Sergeant · October 24, 1963
- ROBERT WILCOX MOODYPrivate First Class · September 16, 1966
- ADAM EDWARD WERSCHINGSergeant · March 2, 1967
- RICHARD LYNN MOOREPrivate First Class · May 17, 1967
- NORMAN EUGENE THOMASStaff Sergeant · February 24, 1968
- JERRY LEE DODSONLance Corporal · February 25, 1968
- DAVID K DEMATTEISPrivate First Class · March 2, 1968
- LUCKY GAYLEN WHITEPrivate First Class · April 29, 1968
- EDWARD MONROE SIMPSONSergeant · May 11, 1968
- ALVIN LEE EVANOFFSpecialist Four · December 6, 1970
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.