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DONALD RAY COLDEBERG
Sergeant · U.S. Army
April 29, 1945 – March 3, 1967
Service recordDonald Ray Coldeberg, of Walkerton, Indiana, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 3, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 8
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- April 29, 1945
- Home of record
- Walkerton, Indiana (St Joseph County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 3, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
46 names on the Wall carry the date March 3, 1967; 21 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 16E, Line 8
- CLYDE JOSEPH CAIRESPrivate First Class · March 3, 1967
- WILLIAM LADD CAMPBELLCorporal · March 3, 1967
- PAUL WILLIAM CURRANPrivate First Class · March 3, 1967
- EDWARD DEAN DISONCorporal · March 3, 1967
Same unit, same day
- AUBREY SHAWN BROWNPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 7
- WALTER JOSEPH FITZPATRICKSergeant First Class · Panel 16E, Line 9
From Walkerton
- SAMUEL EUGENE HEWITTSergeant · March 23, 1966
- LYNN LEROY SMITHCorporal · April 17, 1966
- DAVID LEE SKINNERLance Corporal · October 17, 1966
- LOUIS JOSEPH MAHER JRSergeant · March 24, 1968
- DONNIE RAY HARLEYCorporal · May 27, 1969
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.