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DOUGLAS EDWARD DISHMAN
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 8, 1946 – March 13, 1968
Service recordDouglas Edward Dishman, of Dante, Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 13, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · 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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Cannoneer (0811)
- Born
- May 8, 1946
- Home of record
- Dante, Virginia (Russell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 13, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
57 names on the Wall carry the date March 13, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Thừa Thiên 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 44E, Line 34
- EVERETT DAVISLance Corporal · March 13, 1968
- WILLIAM EDWARD DEANPrivate First Class · March 13, 1968
- JIMMY LYNN DELANOLance Corporal · March 13, 1968
- FRANCIS JOSEPH DOWD JRPrivate First Class · March 13, 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.