Staff Sergeant

Donald L. Coates

USMC

Tigard, Oregon

19 Jan 1937 - 01 Feb 1966

Radio Operator/ Loadmaster

Missing in action aboard "BASKETBALL 809", Marine Corps KC-130 Bureau Number QD 149809 while serving with VMGR-152, MWSG-17, 1ST MAW, MCAF Futenma, Okinawa, Japan.

He is listed on the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial in Washington DC, Panel 4E/128

Donald's cenotaph is located at Willamette National Cemetery, Portland, Oregon.

Staff Sergeant Coates is memorialized at the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (Punchbowl Cemetery) in Honolulu, Hawaii.