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DAN LEON HERDEBU
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 21, 1948 – March 10, 1968
Service recordDan Leon Herdebu, of Baldwin, North Dakota, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 10, 1968, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 8
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
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- July 21, 1948
- Home of record
- Baldwin, North Dakota (Burleigh County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 10, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Khanh Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
46 names on the Wall carry the date March 10, 1968; four of them were lost in Khanh Hoa Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 29 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 44E, Line 8
- JOHN ARTHUR HOOKERStaff Sergeant · March 10, 1968
- JOHN FOSTER JOHNSONSpecialist Four · March 10, 1968
- HOMER HARDY LEEPlatoon Sergeant · March 10, 1968
- BOSCH DWAINE WILME VANDENPrivate First Class · March 10, 1968
Same unit, same day
- STANLEY BRUCE SMITHWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 44E, Line 11
From Baldwin
- THOMAS EDMUND SPITZERLieutenant (junior grade) · October 26, 1966
- NORMAN ANTHONY EMINETHSergeant · May 22, 1970
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.