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DOUGLAS WOODROW COLLINS
Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army
July 5, 1943 – August 21, 1968
Service recordDouglas Woodrow Collins, of Cusseta, Georgia, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on August 21, 1968, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 47W, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47W · Line 16
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
- Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Helicopter Pilot, Utility And Light Cargo Single Rotor (062B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- July 5, 1943
- Home of record
- Cusseta, Georgia (Chattahoochee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 21, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Phuoc Tuy
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date August 21, 1968; four of them were lost in Phuoc Tuy Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 47W, Line 16
- BRUCE EUGENE BARTLETTPrivate First Class · August 21, 1968
- FRED ALLEN CHITWOOD JRSpecialist Four · August 21, 1968
- JOSE RAMON COLON-RIVERACorporal · August 21, 1968
- JERRY WAYNE COMBESTSpecialist Four · August 21, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DICK DALE HAMILTONSergeant First Class · Panel 47W, Line 18
From Cusseta
- EDWARD MCGRUDERPrivate First Class · July 13, 1967
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.