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Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970.
Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Daniel Allen Peters.

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DANIEL ALLEN PETERS

Sergeant · U.S. Army

September 20, 1948 – December 5, 1969

Service record

Daniel Allen Peters, of Cleveland, Ohio, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 5, 1969, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 15W · Line 29

Position of Panel 15W 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
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
173 AIRBORNE BDE
Born
September 20, 1948
Home of record
Cleveland, Ohio (Cuyahoga County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 5, 1969
Age
21
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

25 names on the Wall carry the date December 5, 1969; four of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In December 1969, 509 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 15W, Line 29

From Cleveland

All 250 names from Cleveland →

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.