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DOUGLAS EUGENE FOSTER
Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
May 15, 1948 – May 16, 1968
Service recordDouglas Eugene Foster, of Bellbrook, Ohio, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 16, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 61E, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 61E · Line 9
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- May 15, 1948
- Home of record
- Bellbrook, Ohio (Greene County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 16, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
80 names on the Wall carry the date May 16, 1968; 29 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 61E, Line 9
- JOHN HENERY DIXONSpecialist Four · May 16, 1968
- EXCELL FICKLINStaff Sergeant · May 16, 1968
- ROBERT GLENN FREEMANPrivate First Class · May 16, 1968
- EDWARD THEODORE GORMAN IIICorporal · May 16, 1968
From Bellbrook
- JOHN DAVID STRIPLING IIIPrivate First Class · April 25, 1967
- ROBERT BYREL CANNONPrivate First Class · March 17, 1968
- FARIS E HOLLANDSergeant First Class · October 31, 1968
- ANTHONY ROBERT WERNERSpecialist Four · May 8, 1969
- ERICH CARL ENGELHARDColonel · June 22, 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.