Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: A Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
Awards: Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 31-Aug-1943
Hometown: Enumclaw, Washington
Marital status: Married to Linda J. Biarum
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 27-Apr-1967
Incident date: 19-May-1968
Date of casualty: 26-Dec-1969
Age at death: 26
Cause of Death: Hostile, died of wounds. Died Of Wounds. Other causes.
Donnie Biarum was wounded when the Armored Cavalry Assault Vehicle (ACAV) in which he was riding hit a booby trap. Admitted to 24th Evacuation Hospital, Long Binh, on 19 May 1968 and later evacuated to the United States. Individual expired on 26 Dec 1969 of wounds received on 19 May 1968.
Four Blackhorse troopers died as a result of this incident:
SP4 Donnie Biarum
SP4 Dwight Earl Hinman
PFC Stanley A. Schroeder
SP4 George Owen Spangler
Location of fatality: Hua Nghia, South Vietnam, XT 515 006
Place of interment: Enumclaw Evergreen Memorial Park, Enumclaw, Washington, USA
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