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DONALD RAYMOND DUFFY JR
Sergeant · U.S. Army
June 7, 1938 – December 31, 1965
Service recordDonald Raymond Duffy JR, of Ayer, Massachusetts, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 31, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4E · Line 46
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- June 7, 1938
- Home of record
- Ayer, Massachusetts (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 31, 1965
- Age
- 27
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
Eight names on the Wall carry the date December 31, 1965. In December 1965, 326 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4E, Line 46
- CHARLES EDWARD SISSELPrivate First Class · December 29, 1965
- JAMES RUSH HICKMANSpecialist Four · December 31, 1965
- ROBERT LEE KRAUSSpecialist Four · December 31, 1965
- JACK DALE MCCLURECaptain · December 31, 1965
Same unit, same day
- JACK DALE MCCLURECaptain · Panel 4E, Line 46
- LOUIS BELL TWINN SRSergeant First Class · Panel 4E, Line 47
From Ayer
- EDWARD PAUL FERENCESergeant · November 12, 1965
- RALPH O WATTSSpecialist Four · November 13, 1966
- DOUGLAS FILLEBROWN MOOREWarrant Officer 1 · May 22, 1969
- HARRY MCEWINGPrivate First Class · July 8, 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.