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DONALD RAY SIZEMORE
Sergeant · U.S. Army
June 4, 1948 – August 20, 1968
Service recordDonald Ray Sizemore, of Langley, South Carolina, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 20, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 47W, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47W · Line 12
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV
- Born
- June 4, 1948
- Home of record
- Langley, South Carolina (Aiken County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 20, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
44 names on the Wall carry the date August 20, 1968; five of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV”, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 47W, Line 12
- DONALD EUGENE RUMMELSpecialist Four · August 20, 1968
- JERRY RUSSELL SANSINGSpecialist Five · August 20, 1968
- ALBERT DOUGLAS SMITHPrivate First Class · August 20, 1968
- JOSEPH EARNEST SMITHCorporal · August 20, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CLARENCE FULTONSergeant First Class · Panel 47W, Line 7
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.