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DOUGLAS BLANCHARD PARSONS
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
February 18, 1947 – March 18, 1968
Service recordDouglas Blanchard Parsons, of Arvada, Colorado, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 18, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 45E, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45E · Line 27
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- February 18, 1947
- Home of record
- Arvada, Colorado (Adams County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 18, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
82 names on the Wall carry the date March 18, 1968; 23 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 45E, Line 27
- LAWRENCE JOSEPH LEDONNEPrivate First Class · March 18, 1968
- ELLIOTT LEE PETERSCorporal · March 18, 1968
- WILLIAM DAVID PRICEPrivate · March 18, 1968
- THOMAS RANDELL RAMEYPrivate First Class · March 18, 1968
From Arvada
- DAVID LAWRENCE MANNINGLance Corporal · August 4, 1966
- ROBERT LARRY WESKAMPCaptain · April 25, 1967
- RONALD WYATT ADAMSPrivate First Class · January 23, 1968
- GERALD JOHN BRATRSOVSKYLance Corporal · March 28, 1969
- DAVID LAVERNE GIRARDOLance Corporal · May 3, 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.