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DONALD WAYNE LATTMAN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
June 12, 1947 – March 3, 1968
Service recordDonald Wayne Lattman, of St Paul, Minnesota, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 3, 1968, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 42E, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42E · Line 53
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- June 12, 1947
- Home of record
- St Paul, Minnesota (Ramsey County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 3, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
65 names on the Wall carry the date March 3, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 69 of its members that month.
He died in Kon Tum Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 42E, Line 53
- GARY ALVIN LARSENPetty Officer Third Class · March 3, 1968
- JIMMY FRANCIS LEHMANSpecialist Four · March 3, 1968
- PETER MITCHELLSpecialist Four · March 3, 1968
- GEORGE HERBERT NESTLERODELieutenant Colonel · March 3, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RONALD DWIGHT DUCKERStaff Sergeant · Panel 42E, Line 50
- JACKIE WAYNE GARNERPrivate · Panel 42E, Line 51
- LAWRENCE EDWARD JONESPrivate First Class · Panel 42E, Line 52
- VICTOR A JUSTINIANO JRPrivate First Class · Panel 42E, Line 52
- DONALD A NAHODIL JRPrivate First Class · Panel 42E, Line 54
- DAVID ROBERT OGLESpecialist Four · Panel 42E, Line 55
- DOMINGO ORTIZPrivate First Class · Panel 42E, Line 55
- CHARLES GREGORY ROSSCorporal · Panel 42E, Line 57
From St Paul
- RAYMOND CHARLES WILDEChief Warrant Officer 2 · January 11, 1963
- DAVID MICHAEL HALBAUERStaff Sergeant · October 13, 1965
- JOHN CALVIN ELZY IIIPrivate First Class · November 16, 1965
- ROBERT E WALDVOGELSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- ARLIN ROGER JENSENSpecialist Four · November 19, 1965
- JOHN WALTER WILSON JRPrivate First Class · December 10, 1965
- KALE ARLAN SOLBERGPrivate First Class · February 1, 1966
- JOSEPH SAMUEL HERRONPrivate First Class · March 4, 1966
- DAVID JOSEPH KERNPrivate First Class · April 1, 1966
- LAVERN GEORGE REILLYColonel · May 15, 1966
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.