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DONALD YOUNG SCARBERRY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 25, 1948 – May 27, 1969
Service recordDonald Young Scarberry, of Vicksburg, Michigan, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 27, 1969, in Phu Yen Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 23W, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23W · Line 4
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 Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Multichannel Transmission Systems (31M)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 SIGNAL BDE
- Born
- September 25, 1948
- Home of record
- Vicksburg, Michigan (Kalamazoo County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 27, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Phu Yen
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
41 names on the Wall carry the date May 27, 1969; he was the only one lost in Phu Yen Province that day. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 SIGNAL BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 23W, Line 4
- KENNETH WILLIAM SMITHSpecialist Four · May 27, 1969
- DAVID LEE TESSMERCorporal · May 27, 1969
- CLAUDE RICHARD VANANDELSergeant · May 27, 1969
- HAROLD JAMES WARMSLEYSpecialist Four · May 27, 1969
From Vicksburg
- DARRELL DUANE TAYLORPrivate First Class · August 22, 1969
- ROGER ALLEN DEDIESergeant · November 24, 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.