SEALS Boston, Donald Earl

John Robertson

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  • SURNAME
Boston
  • FORENAME
Donald Earl
  • UNIT
U.S.N. Seal Team 1
  • RANK
Interior Communications Electrician Third Class
  • NUMBER
6848802
  • DATE OF DEATH
7th April 1967
  • AGE
23
  • GRAVESITE
Oakwood Cemetery,Sheffield,Colbert County,Alabama
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from Sheffield,Alabama
born 21.4.1943
married
entered service 1962
KIA Gia Dinh Province,South Vietnam
Vietnam Veterans Memorial,Washington,D.C. Panel 17E Row 114
On 7 April, a SEAL reconnaissance team suffered heavy casualties while engaging an enemy unit near the mouth of the Vam Sat River, in the Bung Sat Special Zone . The SEALs were conducting reconnaissance by fire from their armored LCM-3 when the enemy opened fire from positions on the bank.
As the SEALs began returning the enemy fire, three SEALs were killed when a Viet Cong mortar round burst above their amored LCM, forward of the coxswain's position, showering the boat with shrapnel. The three SEALs were LTJ5 D. M. MANN, USN, Interior Communications Electrician Third Class D. E. BOSTON, USN, and Radioman Third Class R. K. NEAL, USN— and wounded 12 other Americans and two Vietnamese. The team withdrew to the Soirap River in order to evacuate the wounded.
 
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