- SURNAME
Newton
- FORENAME
Donald Stephen
- UNIT
327 Infantry Regiment (Airborne) (Recon Platoon,HQ and HQ Company,1 Bn)
- RANK
Sergeant
- NUMBER
548567657
- DATE OF DEATH
26th February 1966
- AGE
23
- GRAVESITE
Honolulu Memorial,Honolulu,Hawaii Courts of the Missing (Court B)
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from San Pedro,California
born 8.7.1942 San Pedro,California
son of Wayne Newton,Kansas City,Missouri
single
entered service Los Angeles,California
award Silver Star
promoted Sergeant First Class posthumously
MIA west of Tuy Hoa,Phu Yen Province,South Vietnam
observed as WIA and POW 1-2.3.1966 by Vietnamese witnesses
remains not recovered
declared dead 20.8.1974
Vietnam Veterans Memorial,Washington,D.C. Panel 05E Line 81
San Francisco National Cemetery,San Francisco,California Section MA Site 11 (memorial stone)
Green Hills Memorial Park,Rancho Palos Verdes,Los Angeles County,California (wall memorial plaque)
born 8.7.1942 San Pedro,California
son of Wayne Newton,Kansas City,Missouri
single
entered service Los Angeles,California
award Silver Star
promoted Sergeant First Class posthumously
MIA west of Tuy Hoa,Phu Yen Province,South Vietnam
observed as WIA and POW 1-2.3.1966 by Vietnamese witnesses
remains not recovered
declared dead 20.8.1974
Vietnam Veterans Memorial,Washington,D.C. Panel 05E Line 81
San Francisco National Cemetery,San Francisco,California Section MA Site 11 (memorial stone)
Green Hills Memorial Park,Rancho Palos Verdes,Los Angeles County,California (wall memorial plaque)