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GENIE LEE MCDONALD
Sergeant · U.S. Army
March 25, 1947 – January 9, 1968
Service recordGenie Lee McDonald, of Gosport, Indiana, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 9, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34E · Line 8
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- March 25, 1947
- Home of record
- Gosport, Indiana (Owen County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 9, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date January 9, 1968; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 110 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34E, Line 8
- LARRY RICHARD JACKSONPrivate First Class · January 9, 1968
- RICHARD DENMAN LAKINSpecialist Five · January 9, 1968
- TIMOTHY LAMBERTPrivate First Class · January 9, 1968
- GLENNON MARCUSSENSpecialist Four · January 9, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES KIRBY WILCOXCaptain · Panel 34E, Line 12
From Gosport
- ALFRED FUNCKStaff Sergeant · March 23, 1967
- DANNY LEE BOLINPrivate First Class · August 3, 1967
- ALBERT WILLIAM WARTHANStaff Sergeant · April 8, 1968
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.