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DAN LEON PFISTER
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
April 17, 1935 – June 18, 1968
Service recordDan Leon Pfister, of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 18, 1968, in Binh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 56W, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 56W · Line 26
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- April 17, 1935
- Home of record
- Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin (Door County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 18, 1968
- Age
- 33
- Province
- Binh Thuan
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date June 18, 1968; he was the only one lost in Binh Thuan Province that day. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 56W, Line 26
- CLARENCE VERNON MOBLEYCorporal · June 18, 1968
- JOSE ROBERTO MONCAYOSergeant · June 18, 1968
- ELWOOD OWENSLance Corporal · June 18, 1968
- CARL ARTHUR PAULINOPrivate First Class · June 18, 1968
From Sturgeon Bay
- DAVID ROY SCHAEFERSergeant · May 1, 1969
- PHILIP MOREY OVERBECKFirst Lieutenant · June 10, 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.