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DONALD PAUL MCGRANE
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
December 18, 1942 – July 19, 1967
Service recordDonald Paul McGrane, of Waverly, Iowa, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on July 19, 1967, in North Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 92 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23E · Line 92
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Aviation Asw Technician (AX)
- Born
- December 18, 1942
- Home of record
- Waverly, Iowa (Bremer County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 19, 1967
- Age
- 24
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date July 19, 1967. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
Also on Panel 23E, Line 92
- NORMAN ARTHUR MEADCorporal · July 19, 1967
- RONALD ALLAN MOORELance Corporal · July 19, 1967
- DENNIS WILLIAM PETERSONLieutenant · July 19, 1967
- KENNETH GRANT STOKERPrivate · July 19, 1967
From Waverly
- PAUL LLOYD MILIUSCaptain · February 27, 1968
- VERLYN CARL BRUNSCorporal · January 11, 1970
- THOMAS ALAN PORTERCorporal · February 20, 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.