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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Douglas Edward Simpson.

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DOUGLAS EDWARD SIMPSON

Sergeant · U.S. Army

May 2, 1949 – May 31, 1970

Service record

Douglas Edward Simpson, of Heath, Ohio, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 31, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 10W, Line 127 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 10W · Line 127

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
May 2, 1949
Home of record
Heath, Ohio (Licking County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 31, 1970
Age
21
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

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What was happening

32 names on the Wall carry the date May 31, 1970; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 170 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 10W, Line 127

Same unit, same day

From Heath

  • LEE IRVINGPrivate First Class · September 10, 1967

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.