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DOUGLAS DELANO WALLACE
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
August 24, 1948 – April 29, 1967
Service recordDouglas Delano Wallace, of Charlottesville, Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 29, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 117 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 117
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- August 24, 1948
- Home of record
- Charlottesville, Virginia (Charlottesville (City) County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 29, 1967
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date April 29, 1967; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 117
- MARVIN RAY WHITECorporal · April 29, 1967
- EDWIN APONTELance Corporal · April 30, 1967
- KENNETH CHARLES APPLEGATESpecialist Four · April 30, 1967
- JOHN BURDETTE APPLETONLance Corporal · April 30, 1967
From Charlottesville
- GRANDVILLE R JONES JRPrivate First Class · December 5, 1965
- JOHN DEVON TYLERSergeant · July 21, 1966
- ERSKINE BUFORD WILDEPrivate First Class · July 27, 1966
- HARVEY MULHAUSERCaptain · January 31, 1967
- HOWARD ESLIE HOLLARPrivate First Class · March 6, 1968
- ROBERT EDWARD MARSHALLWarrant Officer · November 25, 1968
- JAMES MARION KARDOSPrivate First Class · September 4, 1969
- CHARLES KING BUTLERFirst Lieutenant · December 28, 1969
- ROBERT HOYT RUGGLESPrivate First Class · January 21, 1970
- RICHARD THOMAS CARTERSpecialist Four · January 23, 1970
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.