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DONALD RUSSELL SAEGAERT
Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army
May 3, 1940 – June 10, 1965
Service recordDonald Russell Saegaert, of Berlin, Connecticut, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on June 10, 1965, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2E · Line 6
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
- Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Helicopter Pilot, Utility And Light Cargo Single Rotor (062B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 118 AVN CO 145 AVN BN
- Born
- May 3, 1940
- Home of record
- Berlin, Connecticut (Hartford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 10, 1965
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Phuoc Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date June 10, 1965; seven of them were lost in Phuoc Long Province. In June 1965, 146 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “118 AVN CO 145 AVN BN”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 2E, Line 6
- WILLIAM ROBERT BATCHELDERPrivate First Class · June 10, 1965
- ZOLTAN ALAJOS KOVACSWarrant Officer 1 · June 10, 1965
- EDWARD EUGENE KRUKOWSKICaptain · June 10, 1965
- BOBBY RUSSELLSergeant First Class · June 10, 1965
Same unit, same day
- JOSEPH JAMES COMPA JRStaff Sergeant · Panel 2E, Line 4
- WALTER LOUIS HALLCaptain · Panel 2E, Line 5
From Berlin
- MICHAEL GEORGE DEMORESergeant · August 20, 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.