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DONALD MELVIN SEWELL
Colonel · U.S. Army
November 27, 1916 – November 9, 1967
Service recordDonald Melvin Sewell, of Ventura, California, served as a Colonel in the U.S. Army. He died on November 9, 1967, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 50. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 62 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29E · Line 62
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Colonel (COL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Mechanized Cavalry Unit Commander (1620)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- November 27, 1916
- Home of record
- Ventura, California (Ventura County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 9, 1967
- Age
- 50
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Died of other causes
Context · from the records
What was happening
46 names on the Wall carry the date November 9, 1967; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 29E, Line 62
- GARY LEE REHNCorporal · November 9, 1967
- PETER ANTHONY SCHRADERCorporal · November 9, 1967
- LARRY DOUGLAS SHARPPrivate First Class · November 9, 1967
- LANCE PETER SIJANCaptain · November 9, 1967
Same unit, same day
- KENNETH RONALD HUNTERCaptain · Panel 29E, Line 59
From Ventura
- JAMES CLETUS DYESeaman Recruit · May 29, 1964
- MICHAEL PERRY MORITZSpecialist Five · June 16, 1965
- ROBERT LOUIS PADILLASergeant · May 17, 1966
- DONALD EARL GOREPrivate First Class · June 26, 1966
- CREIGHTON ROBERT DUNNSpecialist Four · October 29, 1966
- JOHN EDWARD WIDENERPrivate First Class · December 11, 1966
- KENNETH CHARLES APPLEGATESpecialist Four · April 30, 1967
- FRANK ROSS ALLENDER JRLance Corporal · July 3, 1967
- SIEGFRIED KOFLERSergeant · July 10, 1967
- MICHAEL WAYNE HASKINSHospitalman · February 1, 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.