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DOUGLAS RAY POLLOCK
Sergeant · U.S. Army
January 26, 1950 – March 8, 1969
Service recordDouglas Ray Pollock, of Brush, Colorado, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 8, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 30W, Line 79 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30W · Line 79
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- January 26, 1950
- Home of record
- Brush, Colorado (Morgan County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 8, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date March 8, 1969; 20 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 121 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 30W, Line 79
- KENNETH EDWARD MILLERSpecialist Four · March 8, 1969
- MATTHEW EDWARD MORTON JRPrivate First Class · March 8, 1969
- JOHN LARRY MOTLEY JRSpecialist Four · March 8, 1969
- JAMES MICHAEL NORMANPrivate First Class · March 8, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JEWELL C BLANKENSHIPSergeant · Panel 30W, Line 71
- DANIEL IRIZARRY-ACEVEDOSpecialist Four · Panel 30W, Line 77
- CHARLES DAVIS MACKENPrivate First Class · Panel 30W, Line 78
From Brush
- RONALD ALAN HUNTCorporal · August 23, 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.