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DONALD ROY LAST
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 23, 1946 – July 10, 1967
Service recordDonald Roy Last, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 10, 1967, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23E · Line 43
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- July 23, 1946
- Home of record
- Oshkosh, Wisconsin (Winnebago County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 10, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date July 10, 1967; two of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 9 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 23E, Line 43
- EDWARD KIKAU KEAMaster Sergeant · July 10, 1967
- FRED ALLAN KELLEYSpecialist Four · July 10, 1967
- REVELRY LAWRENCE KERWINSergeant · July 10, 1967
- SIEGFRIED KOFLERSergeant · July 10, 1967
- PETER GERALD LECHNIRSpecialist Four · July 10, 1967
Same unit, same day
- BEN WHITESergeant · Panel 23E, Line 47
From Oshkosh
- ORLAND ORRIN BEARWALDPrivate First Class · September 8, 1965
- KENNETH BRUCE HAWLEYCorporal · August 12, 1966
- PAUL EDWARD MANSKEPrivate First Class · May 13, 1967
- JAMES THOMAS DOBISHPrivate First Class · May 20, 1967
- JAMES ROBERT FISCHERSergeant · July 23, 1967
- RICHARD ALLEN MEHNEPrivate First Class · November 8, 1967
- JAMES JEROME LINDSergeant · January 5, 1968
- CHRISTIAN ALAN LANGENFELDPrivate First Class · January 27, 1968
- STEVEN LYNN ZOBELLance Corporal · May 21, 1968
- MANUEL TORRES LOPEZSergeant First Class · June 27, 1968
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.