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DOUGLAS GAYLORD SWANSTROM
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
June 3, 1947 – May 21, 1969
Service recordDouglas Gaylord Swanstrom, of Ellington, New York, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 21, 1969, in Lam Dong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 72 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 72
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- June 3, 1947
- Home of record
- Ellington, New York (Chautauqua County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 21, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Lam Dong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
51 names on the Wall carry the date May 21, 1969; two of them were lost in Lam Dong Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 29 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 24W, Line 72
- SAMUEL RAMOSPrivate First Class · May 21, 1969
- KENNETH DARRELL SPENCERSergeant · May 21, 1969
- LAWRENCE MILTON STUCKWarrant Officer 1 · May 21, 1969
- RICHARD EDWARD TAMERPrivate First Class · May 21, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ENRIQUE MARTINEZCorporal · Panel 24W, Line 68
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.