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Bomb craters along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos, August 1970.
Bomb craters along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos, August 1970. Photo: U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Daniel Arthur Sulander.

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DANIEL ARTHUR SULANDER

Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army

September 18, 1943 – December 2, 1966

Service record

Daniel Arthur Sulander, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on December 2, 1966, in Laos, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 13E · Line 7

Position of Panel 13E 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
Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Unit (as recorded)
281 ASLT HELO CO 17 AVN GP
Born
September 18, 1943
Home of record
Minneapolis, Minnesota (Hennepin County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 2, 1966
Age
23
Country
Laos
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown
Remains
Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record

Context · from the records

What was happening

27 names on the Wall carry the date December 2, 1966. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.

His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.

Also on Panel 13E, Line 7

From Minneapolis

All 193 names from Minneapolis →

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.