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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Mack Donald Sharpe.

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MACK DONALD SHARPE

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

January 12, 1945 – March 29, 1969

Service record

Mack Donald Sharpe, of Brunswick, Georgia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 29, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 86 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 28W · Line 86

Position of Panel 28W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
January 12, 1945
Home of record
Brunswick, Georgia (Glynn County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 29, 1969
Age
24
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

52 names on the Wall carry the date March 29, 1969; 11 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 156 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 28W, Line 86

Same unit, same day

From Brunswick

All 13 names from Brunswick →

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.