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DONALD THORPE DEERE
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
September 6, 1944 – May 17, 1966
Service recordDonald Thorpe Deere, of Snyder, Texas, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He was lost on May 17, 1966, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 7E, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 7E · Line 69
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- September 6, 1944
- Home of record
- Snyder, Texas (Scurry County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- May 17, 1966
- Province
- Binh Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
62 names on the Wall carry the date May 17, 1966; he was the only one lost in Binh Long Province that day. In May 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 11 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 7E, Line 69
- LORING WILLIAM CARPER JRHospitalman · May 17, 1966
- EARL GLENN CLARKPrivate First Class · May 17, 1966
- TONY DEDMANSpecialist Four · May 17, 1966
- KENNETH EUGENE DUNCANPrivate First Class · May 17, 1966
From Snyder
- JERRY PAUL RODGERSPetty Officer Third Class · July 29, 1967
- WILLIAM PAUL ROLLINSWarrant Officer 1 · September 29, 1968
- REYNALDO SALAIS RODRIGUEZPrivate First Class · July 26, 1969
- RICHARD LEE RUSSELLFirst Lieutenant · April 26, 1972
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.