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DONN WHITNEY BELANDER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
February 2, 1949 – December 21, 1969
Service recordDonn Whitney Belander, of Bountiful, Utah, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 21, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 76 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15W · Line 76
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Assaultman (0351)
- Born
- February 2, 1949
- Home of record
- Bountiful, Utah (Davis County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 21, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date December 21, 1969; eight of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In December 1969, 509 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 15W, Line 76
- RUDOLPH ERNEST ARAUJOSpecialist Five · December 21, 1969
- STEVEN EUGENE BACKHAUSSecond Lieutenant · December 21, 1969
- DAVID LEON BARBERSergeant · December 21, 1969
- DAVID RAYMOND BRUCELance Corporal · December 21, 1969
From Bountiful
- ROBERT RALPH ANDERSONSpecialist Four · March 16, 1967
- STEVEN FRANKLIN MATHIASLance Corporal · July 2, 1967
- PHILIP JAMES KREK JRSergeant · March 26, 1968
- RANDY LEE MATHIASLance Corporal · June 18, 1968
- ROBERT CONRAD SHANNONCorporal · July 20, 1968
- TERRY BUCKLES DAYLance Corporal · September 29, 1968
- JACK ALBERT HARKER JRWarrant Officer 1 · June 9, 1969
- STEVEN DANNY LUNDLance Corporal · September 13, 1969
- MICHAEL DALE WEEKSSpecialist Four · September 17, 1969
- ROBERT JOSEPH SKEWESPrivate First Class · March 30, 1971
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.