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CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL DANIELS
Sergeant · U.S. Army
December 18, 1948 – February 3, 1968
Service recordChristopher Michael Daniels, of Gloucester, New Jersey, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 3, 1968, in Phu Yen Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 37E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37E · Line 5
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- December 18, 1948
- Home of record
- Gloucester, New Jersey (Camden County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 3, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Phu Yen
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
71 names on the Wall carry the date February 3, 1968; he was the only one lost in Phu Yen Province that day. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 61 of its members that month.
He died in Phu Yen Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 37E, Line 5
- LESLIE A DICKINSON JRSecond Lieutenant · February 3, 1968
- ROBERT LEE DICKSONPrivate First Class · February 3, 1968
- JERRY RANKIN HALEYFirst Lieutenant · February 3, 1968
- VERNON ZIGMAN JOHNSSergeant First Class · February 3, 1968
From Gloucester
- HARRY G BRANNONSergeant · August 15, 1966
- JOHN JOSEPH RODGERSPrivate First Class · January 15, 1967
- WILLIAM BERNARD HAMACHERPrivate First Class · May 22, 1968
- WILLIAM FRANCIS RIDGECorporal · August 24, 1969
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.