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DONALD WAYNE JACOBS
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
September 20, 1945 – June 11, 1968
Service recordDonald Wayne Jacobs, of Mcdonald, Pennsylvania, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 11, 1968, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 58W, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 58W · Line 26
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Fixed Wing Aviation Unit Commander (1980)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- September 20, 1945
- Home of record
- Mcdonald, Pennsylvania (Allegheny County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 11, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
51 names on the Wall carry the date June 11, 1968; six of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 45 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 58W, Line 26
- TERRY LEE IVENERPrivate First Class · June 11, 1968
- SAM JONESLance Corporal · June 11, 1968
- THOMAS HUBERT JONESPrivate First Class · June 11, 1968
- WILBER DEAN MONROELance Corporal · June 11, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GORDON ABNER HAWKINSCaptain · Panel 58W, Line 25
- TERRY LEE IVENERPrivate First Class · Panel 58W, Line 26
- WILLIE OVERSTREET JRSpecialist Five · Panel 58W, Line 28
From Mcdonald
- DANIEL CARL CAPITANIPrivate First Class · December 16, 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.