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DOUGLAS WILLARD GUEST JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 25, 1947 – April 7, 1968
Service recordDouglas Willard Guest JR, of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 7, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 48E, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48E · Line 41
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Ammunition Specialist (55B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- February 25, 1947
- Home of record
- Pottstown, Pennsylvania (Montgomery County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 7, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
62 names on the Wall carry the date April 7, 1968; 32 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 22 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 48E, Line 41
- PAUL DOUGLAS FLOURNOYCorporal · April 7, 1968
- LORRENCE TEALOA FRIDAYCorporal · April 7, 1968
- ALLAN JOSEPH GAINESPrivate First Class · April 7, 1968
- JOHN LEE INGRAMPrivate First Class · April 7, 1968
From Pottstown
- RONALD J SEASHOLTZSergeant · April 11, 1966
- ROY ROBERT LAPISHSergeant First Class · March 4, 1967
- STANLEY DAVIDHEISER JRLance Corporal · March 28, 1967
- LARRY WADEFirst Lieutenant · November 11, 1967
- DENNIS J MILLERSpecialist Four · February 2, 1968
- ROBERT JAMES SOVIZALSecond Lieutenant · April 3, 1968
- LEE SCOTT ADAMSSecond Lieutenant · April 6, 1968
- CARL GARY BECKPrivate First Class · September 5, 1969
- JOSEPH RONALD SMOYERLance Corporal · April 24, 1970
- GARY CHARLES DAVIDSpecialist Five · March 1, 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.