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DANIEL ALAN HILDEBRANDT
Private First Class · U.S. Army
February 21, 1948 – February 13, 1968
Service recordDaniel Alan Hildebrandt, of Iselin, New Jersey, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 13, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39E · Line 22
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- February 21, 1948
- Home of record
- Iselin, New Jersey (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 13, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
60 names on the Wall carry the date February 13, 1968; he was the only one lost in Quảng Ngãi Province that day. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Ngãi 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 39E, Line 22
- PETER WYETH JOHNSONFirst Lieutenant · February 13, 1968
- DONALD LETASecond Lieutenant · February 13, 1968
- PERFECTO NUNEZ LOPEZLance Corporal · February 13, 1968
- CHARLES RICHARD MORGANPrivate First Class · February 13, 1968
From Iselin
- VINCENT F RISOLDIPrivate First Class · June 28, 1965
- ANTHONY SKODMINPrivate First Class · January 20, 1966
- MAURICE JOSEPH OCALLAGHANPrivate First Class · April 21, 1967
- VINCENT MORANSergeant · March 28, 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.