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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Cantrell Monro Daniel III.

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CANTRELL MONRO DANIEL III

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

December 22, 1951 – April 30, 1971

Service record

Cantrell Monro Daniel III, of Atlanta, Georgia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 30, 1971, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 3W · Line 19

Position of Panel 3W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Supplyman (76A)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
December 22, 1951
Home of record
Atlanta, Georgia (Fulton County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 30, 1971
Age
19
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

Ten names on the Wall carry the date April 30, 1971; seven of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1971, 292 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 57 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 3W, Line 19

Same unit, same day

From Atlanta

All 188 names from Atlanta →

Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.