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DONNIE JACKSON LAWHORNE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 21, 1949 – August 20, 1968
Service recordDonnie Jackson Lawhorne, of Amherst, Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 20, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 47W, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47W · Line 10
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- April 21, 1949
- Home of record
- Amherst, Virginia (Amherst County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 20, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
44 names on the Wall carry the date August 20, 1968; five of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 86 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 47W, Line 10
- RONALD WARREN KEMPFFPetty Officer Second Class · August 20, 1968
- ROBERT WALLACE LAISCorporal · August 20, 1968
- CHARLES DAVID LINDBLOOMPetty Officer Second Class · August 20, 1968
- DONALD EUGENE LISENBYSergeant First Class · August 20, 1968
Same unit, same day
- VERNON WEBB CHRISTIAN JRSergeant · Panel 47W, Line 6
From Amherst
- WILLIAM DAVID SIROCCO JRPrivate First Class · November 1, 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.