New memorial for Savin Hill: Donald Vincent Baker Square

The fighting associated with the second phase of North Vietnam’s brutal Tet offensive in May 1968, wasn’t expected to be intense at Dong Ha, where Dorchester resident Donald Vincent Baker, a Seabee attached to the Third Marine Division, was stationed. But on May 14, the North Vietnamese targeted Baker’s location, and he was wounding both by shrapnel and by the effects of a

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