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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Donald Raymond Huey.

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DONALD RAYMOND HUEY

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

September 25, 1949 – September 10, 1970

Service record

Donald Raymond Huey, of Farmingdale, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 10, 1970, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 7W, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 7W · Line 53

Position of Panel 7W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
Born
September 25, 1949
Home of record
Farmingdale, New York (Nassau County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 10, 1970
Age
20
Province
Phuoc Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

15 names on the Wall carry the date September 10, 1970; he was the only one lost in Phuoc Long Province that day. In September 1970, 364 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 43 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 7W, Line 53

Same unit, same day

From Farmingdale

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.