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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Dan Owen Felts.

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DAN OWEN FELTS

Sergeant · U.S. Army

February 19, 1950 – September 20, 1970

Service record

Dan Owen Felts, of Flagstaff, Arizona, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 20, 1970, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 7W, Line 76 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 7W · Line 76

Position of Panel 7W 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
February 19, 1950
Home of record
Flagstaff, Arizona (Coconino County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 20, 1970
Age
20
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

23 names on the Wall carry the date September 20, 1970; 11 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In September 1970, 364 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 7W, Line 76

Same unit, same day

From Flagstaff

All 16 names from Flagstaff →

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.