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LESTER EARL MACDONALD
Sergeant · U.S. Army
March 18, 1941 – June 8, 1966
Service recordLester Earl Macdonald, of Portland, Maine, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 8, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 8E · Line 22
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Anti-Armor Weapons Infantryman (11H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- March 18, 1941
- Home of record
- Portland, Maine (Cumberland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 8, 1966
- Age
- 25
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date June 8, 1966. In June 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 8E, Line 22
- ROBERT ALLEN HILLPrivate First Class · June 8, 1966
- KENNETH NEIL MACBETHCorporal · June 8, 1966
- ELADIO R MARROQUIN JRSpecialist Four · June 8, 1966
- DELANEY ERNEST MILLER JRPlatoon Sergeant · June 8, 1966
Same unit, same day
- EDWARD EUGENE CHRISTIEPrivate First Class · Panel 8E, Line 19
- REUBEN L CLARK JRPrivate First Class · Panel 8E, Line 19
- ROCKFORD WAYNE GODDARDSpecialist Four · Panel 8E, Line 21
- ROBERT ALLEN HILLPrivate First Class · Panel 8E, Line 22
- ELADIO R MARROQUIN JRSpecialist Four · Panel 8E, Line 22
- MICHAEL EUGENE OGUINNPrivate First Class · Panel 8E, Line 23
- CHRIS C VURLUMISCaptain · Panel 8E, Line 25
- THOMAS LEEONAS YOHNPrivate First Class · Panel 8E, Line 25
From Portland
- LAWRENCE WILLIAM SHAY JRLance Corporal · June 15, 1966
- JAMES M MCDONOUGH JRCaptain · August 2, 1966
- ROBERT GREGORY WILLIAMSONPrivate First Class · November 10, 1966
- PAUL LEWIS STIMPSONFirst Lieutenant · April 22, 1967
- ROBERT ALLAN TURNERPetty Officer Second Class · May 18, 1967
- HAROLD ELLSWORTH SOUTHARDPrivate First Class · June 24, 1967
- LAWRENCE LANOSpecialist Five · October 29, 1967
- STEPHEN JOHN WHIPPLEPrivate First Class · December 15, 1967
- EDWARD JOSEPH DARCYChief Master Sergeant · December 29, 1967
- NORMAN EDWARD COLOSANTIPrivate First Class · January 5, 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.