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DANIEL ARNOLD MAY
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
June 18, 1942 – June 17, 1969
Service recordDaniel Arnold May, of Spring Grove, Illinois, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on June 17, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 22W · Line 67
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Finance Specialist (73C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- June 18, 1942
- Home of record
- Spring Grove, Illinois (Mchenry County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 17, 1969
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date June 17, 1969; he was the only one lost in Định Tường Province that day. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 70 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 22W, Line 67
- JOHNIE FRANKLIN GRANBERRYPrivate First Class · June 17, 1969
- DOUGLAS WAYNE MCPHEEPrivate First Class · June 17, 1969
- GREGORIO MANUEL MORAPrivate First Class · June 17, 1969
- GERALD KING NEERStaff Sergeant · June 17, 1969
Same unit, same day
- DANIEL BING LEDINPrivate First Class · Panel 22W, Line 66
From Spring Grove
- RICHARD JOHN BEHRNSLance Corporal · July 23, 1967
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.