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A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967.
A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, DASPO, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Dan Wagner JR.

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DAN WAGNER JR

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

March 30, 1936 – December 15, 1967

Service record

Dan Wagner JR, of Pineville, Kentucky, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 15, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 32E · Line 7

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant First Class (SFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
SPECIAL FORCES
Born
March 30, 1936
Home of record
Pineville, Kentucky (Bell County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 15, 1967
Age
31
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

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What was happening

52 names on the Wall carry the date December 15, 1967. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.

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From Pineville

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.