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DOUGLAS BUREM WADE
Second Lieutenant · U.S. Army
February 1, 1948 – February 9, 1968
Service recordDouglas Burem Wade, of Kingsport, Tennessee, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 9, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 38E, Line 62 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38E · Line 62
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
- Second Lieutenant (2LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Parachutist, Fa Unit Commander (71193)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- February 1, 1948
- Home of record
- Kingsport, Tennessee (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 9, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
107 names on the Wall carry the date February 9, 1968; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 144 of its members that month.
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 38E, Line 62
- JESS THOMASSergeant · February 9, 1968
- CHARLES PETER TORLIATT JRPrivate First Class · February 9, 1968
- WILLIAM HENRY J UNDERWOODSpecialist Four · February 9, 1968
- DONALD STEVEN WAITESpecialist Four · February 9, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES J CRAWFORD JRSpecialist Six · Panel 38E, Line 44
- BERNARD JOHN CARONStaff Sergeant · Panel 38E, Line 46
- CLYDE LAWRENCE DEMELLOCorporal · Panel 38E, Line 48
- THOMAS NORTONSpecialist Four · Panel 38E, Line 57
- CHARLES EDWARD NOVELSpecialist Four · Panel 38E, Line 57
- JOSEPH WILFRED ROUNSEVILLEFirst Sergeant · Panel 38E, Line 60
- BENJAMIN JOHN TEREJKO JRSpecialist Four · Panel 38E, Line 61
- DONALD STEVEN WAITESpecialist Four · Panel 38E, Line 62
From Kingsport
- KARL ANTHONY BROWNPrivate First Class · March 29, 1967
- WILLIAM FRANK DYKESLance Corporal · October 29, 1967
- RANDALL DOUGLAS YEARYSecond Lieutenant · January 14, 1968
- WILLIAM JACKSON ROBERTSPrivate First Class · January 27, 1968
- ROBERT BERYL STAFFORDSergeant · January 31, 1968
- JAMES EDDIE REEDCaptain · February 1, 1968
- ROBERT GLEN PRICESecond Lieutenant · May 4, 1968
- WILLIAM GUY POOLE IIISpecialist Four · June 5, 1968
- JAMES LAFON TARTEFirst Lieutenant · August 24, 1968
- WILLARD FRANKLIN MORELOCKStaff Sergeant · September 24, 1968
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.