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TERRY WAYNE DOAN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 3, 1950 – March 22, 1971
Service recordTerry Wayne Doan, of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 22, 1971, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 65 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 65
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
- Medical Laboratory Specialist (92B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- AMERICAL DIV
- Born
- July 3, 1950
- Home of record
- Elizabethtown, Kentucky (Hardin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 22, 1971
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date March 22, 1971; three of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 50 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4W, Line 65
- REGINALD JOE ABERNETHYPrivate First Class · March 22, 1971
- CHRISTOPHER ZENO CZARNOTAPrivate First Class · March 22, 1971
- KARL WALTER DRUZINSKICorporal · March 22, 1971
- WILLIAM HENRY FELLSSpecialist Four · March 22, 1971
Same unit, same day
- REGINALD DAVID CLEVEWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 4W, Line 66
- WALTER RAY HALLSpecialist Four · Panel 4W, Line 66
- DONALD PAUL KNUTSENSpecialist Four · Panel 4W, Line 67
- LARRY DEWAYNE LEAMONSpecialist Four · Panel 4W, Line 67
- JEROME EDWARD LEROYSpecialist Four · Panel 4W, Line 67
- JOHN GROVE TRAVER IIIWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 4W, Line 69
From Elizabethtown
- JERRY DEAN OLDSAirman First Class · June 5, 1966
- BILLY BROWN KINGSergeant · September 22, 1966
- ALVIN COY KNIGHTCorporal · May 5, 1968
- HUBERT WAYNE MILLERSpecialist Four · October 4, 1968
- THOMAS JACKSON BARNES JRSergeant · July 9, 1969
- ROBERT SAMPSON GEERSergeant First Class · November 30, 1970
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.