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JOHN MARTIN DONOHUE
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
August 4, 1950 – September 16, 1968
Service recordJohn Martin Donohue, of Gregory, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 16, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 43W, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43W · Line 4
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- August 4, 1950
- Home of record
- Gregory, Michigan (Livingston County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 16, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date September 16, 1968; 17 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 43W, Line 4
- PERRY DIBERARDINOCorporal · September 16, 1968
- JAMES CLAUDE DURHAM JRPrivate First Class · September 16, 1968
- JAMES RAYMOND ENGLERTSergeant · September 16, 1968
- KENNETH ROY FARDENCorporal · September 16, 1968
From Gregory
- MAURICE JOHN BIEHNPrivate First Class · October 9, 1967
- ROBERT VINCENT SIMONSStaff Sergeant · August 15, 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.