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DOUGLAS MEREDITH MCNABB
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 17, 1947 – February 23, 1968
Service recordDouglas Meredith McNabb, of Traverse City, Michigan, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 23, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 77 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 77
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- September 17, 1947
- Home of record
- Traverse City, Michigan (Grand Traverse County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 23, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date February 23, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Ngãi 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 40E, Line 77
- KIM WILLIAMS JOHNSONFirst Lieutenant · February 23, 1968
- RANDY COIS MOORECorporal · February 23, 1968
- VINCENT ANTONIO MOTTOLAPrivate First Class · February 23, 1968
- DENNIS ERVIN MUSSMANPrivate First Class · February 23, 1968
From Traverse City
- THOMAS NEIL YAGLELance Corporal · April 16, 1966
- WARREN W COBLEYSergeant First Class · July 8, 1966
- RICHARD LEE OTTELance Corporal · September 7, 1967
- MELVIN UDELSON WANGESHIKSpecialist Four · February 19, 1968
- JOHN CHARLES HARRINGTONPrivate · June 4, 1968
- JAMES IVAN JAQUISHSpecialist Four · September 25, 1969
- MICHAEL PATRICK MCQUEERSpecialist Four · November 11, 1969
- GERALD DOUGLAS TOMLINSONCorporal · February 4, 1970
- HOFF RALPH HENRY VONDERPrivate First Class · August 28, 1970
- RICHARD HENRY DEFERMajor · October 18, 1971
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.