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DONNIE RAY MCCORMICK
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 22, 1947 – February 8, 1968
Service recordDonnie Ray McCormick, of Morrison, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 8, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 38E, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38E · Line 34
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- October 22, 1947
- Home of record
- Morrison, Tennessee (Warren County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 8, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
114 names on the Wall carry the date February 8, 1968; eight of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 164 of its members that month.
He died in Định Tường Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 38E, Line 34
- LARRY JAMES MCCUBBINSSpecialist Four · February 8, 1968
- ALLEN LAWRENCE MUMMERTSpecialist Four · February 8, 1968
- JOHN ROBERT MURPHYLance Corporal · February 8, 1968
- PATRICK MICHAEL MURPHYPrivate First Class · February 8, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DONALD ROBERT BOWMANPrivate First Class · Panel 38E, Line 21
- JAMES THOMAS CHAMBERSSpecialist Four · Panel 38E, Line 23
- ALLEN LAWRENCE MUMMERTSpecialist Four · Panel 38E, Line 34
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.