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DONALD WAYNE SIMONSON
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
March 14, 1949 – August 29, 1968
Service recordDonald Wayne Simonson, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 29, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 45W, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45W · Line 2
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- March 14, 1949
- Home of record
- Sioux Falls, South Dakota (Minnehaha County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 29, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
54 names on the Wall carry the date August 29, 1968; 27 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 45W, Line 2
- THOMAS RANDAL SCALISEPrivate First Class · August 29, 1968
- CLAIBORNE JOHN SKINNERLance Corporal · August 29, 1968
- JOHN BYRON SMITHHospitalman · August 29, 1968
- ELK CARLOS NICHOLAS YELLOWPrivate First Class · August 29, 1968
From Sioux Falls
- LOUIS JAMES CUNNINGHAMPrivate First Class · December 19, 1965
- DENNIS CLARK KNUTSONPrivate First Class · July 24, 1966
- ROGER ALLAN PETERSENPrivate First Class · October 14, 1966
- PAUL OLYNN EVANSLance Corporal · December 22, 1966
- RONALD RA VANREGENMORTERCaptain · January 12, 1967
- JAMES LEE STEINEKEPrivate First Class · January 28, 1967
- RONALD CHARLES GEHLERSpecialist Four · February 15, 1967
- DARRELL DEAN VENENGAPrivate First Class · November 17, 1967
- SAMUEL FANTLE IIICaptain · January 5, 1968
- MICHAEL DAVID MARKSPrivate First Class · January 8, 1968
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.