OBITUARY INFORMATION FROM FINDAGRAVE.COM:

BIRTH: 1 Jan 1929, Hobart, Lake County, Indiana, USA
DEATH: 2 Oct 1968 (aged 39), Vietnam
CENOTAPH: Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA
PLOT: Courts of the Missing
MEMORIAL ID    141044612 · View Source

Donald Edward Erwin
Commander, U.S. Navy
Attack Squadron 164

Commander Erwin was a member of Attack Squadron 164, Carrier Air Wing 21 aboard the Aircraft Carrier USS HANCOCK (CVA-19).

On October 2, 1968, he was the pilot of a Douglas Attack Aircraft Skyhawk (A-4E) on an armed reconnaissance over North Vietnam when his aircraft was hit by anti-aircraft fire. He directed his aircraft to the Gulf of Tonkin, ejected and parachuted then disappeared under water about 15 miles northeast of Vinh, Nghe An Province.

His remains were recovered on July 31, 1989 and identified on February 1, 1990.

His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.

This memorial is a cenotaph.

This information and photo were obtained from: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141044612.

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This article appeared in the Post-Tribune, by Jerry Davich, November 10, 
"Hobart man still grieves uncle's death in war",
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/opinion/ct-ptb-davich-vets-day-erwin-st-1111-20151110-story.html

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OBITUARY CLIPPING FROM THE VALPARAISO VIDETTE-MESSENGER, MARCH 21, 1969:

This clipping was obtained from: https://www.newspapers.com/image/333465978/?image=333465978&words=&article=cb6611dc-a760-49dd-b618-8196905a1708&focus=0.73104644,0.384593,0.9628661,0.64177436&xid=2378&_ga=2.31461374.1140640253.1571090262-1051479459.1546641081&ancestry=true

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This is Don's senior picture, obtained from the 1947 HHS Memories yearbook, made available by the Lake County Public Library, at: https://archive.org/details/HOHS1947Images/.