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Casualty Info
Home Town Rich Hill, MO
Last Address Rich Hill, MO
Casualty Date Apr 12, 1969
Cause KIA-Killed in Action
Reason Artillery, Rocket, Mortar
Location An Xugen (Vietnam)
Conflict Vietnam War
Location of Interment Green Lawn Cemetery - Rich HIll, Missouri
REMEMBERED Lieutenant (junior grade) Donald Droz was the skipper of PCF-43, a "swift boat" assigned to Coastal Division Eleven. On 12 April 1969 he and Chief Hospital Corpsman Robert Worthington of Underwater Demolition Team 13 were killed in action when eight boats of CosDiv-11 were ambushed. Quartermaster 3rd Class Thomas Holloway , cox'n aboard PCF-51, was killed in the same engagement.