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DONNIE LEE HACKNEY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 15, 1949 – August 19, 1969
Service recordDonnie Lee Hackney, of Sissonville, West Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 19, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 19W, Line 68 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19W · Line 68
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Construction Equipment Operator (62E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 984 ENG CO 62 ENG BN 79 ENG GRP 20 ENG BDE
- Born
- March 15, 1949
- Home of record
- Sissonville, West Virginia (Kanawha County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 19, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
57 names on the Wall carry the date August 19, 1969; five of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 19W, Line 68
- JARED ARTHUR FRISBIEPrivate First Class · August 19, 1969
- FRANCISCO GONZALEZ JRPrivate · August 19, 1969
- ELI PAGE HOWARD JRLieutenant Colonel · August 19, 1969
- MARTIN EUGENE KIRIKSecond Lieutenant · August 19, 1969
From Sissonville
- KENNETH WAYNE SHAMBLINSpecialist Four · April 21, 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.