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DOUGLAS ALLEN CANN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 25, 1948 – July 2, 1968
Service recordDouglas Allen Cann, of Carlisle, Massachusetts, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 2, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 54W, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 54W · Line 35
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
- General Vehicle Repairman (63C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- April 25, 1948
- Home of record
- Carlisle, Massachusetts (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 2, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date July 2, 1968; four of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 54W, Line 35
- DARELD NORVAL BORDERSSergeant · July 2, 1968
- JAMES ALFRED BRADY SRWarrant Officer 1 · July 2, 1968
- ALBERT LEROY BROMLEYSergeant · July 2, 1968
- WILLIE B CATLINGSpecialist Four · July 2, 1968
From Carlisle
- JOHN FRANCIS KAZANOWSKICaptain · October 7, 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.