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DONALD WAYNE BURNSIDE
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
August 23, 1943 – April 1, 1968
Service recordDonald Wayne Burnside, of Hawley, Minnesota, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on April 1, 1968, offshore, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47E · Line 30
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Aviation Structural Mech (Safety Equip) (AME)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 7 FLT
- Born
- August 23, 1943
- Home of record
- Hawley, Minnesota (Clay County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 1, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Offshore
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
46 names on the Wall carry the date April 1, 1968. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “7 FLT”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 47E, Line 30
- DAVID ALDEN BRENNERStaff Sergeant · April 1, 1968
- JAMES MARTIN BRINKMAN IIICaptain · April 1, 1968
- DAVID CHARLES CARDINALSpecialist Four · April 1, 1968
- LESLIE ALLEN DEVERS JRLance Corporal · April 1, 1968
Same unit, same day
- KENNETH LEE CRISTPetty Officer First Class · Panel 47E, Line 31
- FRANK EDWARD HAND IIILieutenant (junior grade) · Panel 47E, Line 32
- DELMAR LEON LAWRENCEPetty Officer Third Class · Panel 47E, Line 33
- STUART MURRAY MCLELLANLieutenant (junior grade) · Panel 47E, Line 35
- DONALD FRANK WOODPetty Officer First Class · Panel 47E, Line 38
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.