Donald Eugene Madden was the son of James Coleman Madden and Artie Phillips.
Military Data
Unit A Company, 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division, USARV
Casualty Data
Start Tour 12 January 1967
Incident Date 26 February 1967
Casualty Date 26 February 1967
Age at Loss 19
Location Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam
Remains Body recovered
Casualty Type Hostile, died outright
Casualty Reason Ground casualty
Casualty Detail Gun or small arms fire
Vietnam Wall Panel 15E Line 097
Burial
Reed Cemetery, New River, Scott County, Tennessee
Darrell Schmitz, friend
dukschmitz@yahoo.com
New River, TN USA
I was very young living at my grandmothers and grandfathers, and I’ll always remember donald used to come to their house, jumping over the fence and playing catch with me, even tho I was 8 years younger. He never seemed to mind. then abruptly he was gone to the army. He came from a very poor and large family, but their position in life never seemed to matter. He and his whole family, mother Artie, sister Lou, and all the rest seemed to be happy, content with who they were. I still go by his resting place in reed cemetery, where I have many relatives myself, and wonder what could have been. Darrell Schmitz
Friday, October 05, 2001
The Knoxville News-Sentinel, 2 March 1967
Donald Eugene Madden, who went into the Army just last Aug. 9, has been killed in Vietnam, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Madden of New River (Scott County) have been notified. Young Madden, 19, left for Vietnam Jan. 13. He was sstationed in Payninah and was killed in a night raid on that town Sunday night. He was the third graduate of Huntsville High School to be killed in Vietnam. Before joining the Army, he worked at Boss Manufacturing Co. in Oneida.
Picture from the Huntsville High School Yearbook 1971
- Rank: Private First Class
- Date of birth: 27 July 1947
- Date of death: 26 February 1967
- County: Scott
- Hometown: New River
- Service Branch: Army
- Division/Assignment: 9th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division
- Conflict: Vietnam
- Awards: Purple Heart, Bronze Star
- Burial/Memorial Location: Reed Cemetery, New River, Scott County, TN
- Location In Memorial: Pillar XXIV, Top Panel
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