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DANIEL CARRASCO
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
September 23, 1947 – May 2, 1969
Service recordDaniel Carrasco, of Cucamonga, California, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on May 2, 1969, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 97 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26W · Line 97
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- September 23, 1947
- Home of record
- Cucamonga, California (San Bernardino County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 2, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Burns/Smoke Inhalation
Context · from the records
What was happening
46 names on the Wall carry the date May 2, 1969; four of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 26W, Line 97
- JOSE CARMEN ALVAREZPrivate First Class · May 2, 1969
- FLETCHER W BOLES IISergeant · May 2, 1969
- NEIL SHIPP BROWNPrivate First Class · May 2, 1969
- JAMES GILBERT CASEMaster Sergeant · May 2, 1969
Same unit, same day
- RODNEY JOE BLACKSpecialist Five · Panel 26W, Line 96
- JERRY RAY LANGLEYSpecialist Four · Panel 26W, Line 100
From Cucamonga
- RONALD W PENNCaptain · May 29, 1967
- CHARLES BLAKE THOMASLance Corporal · June 18, 1968
- DAVID GLENN KELLISONPrivate First Class · April 24, 1969
- FRED THOMAS TEALPrivate First Class · June 6, 1969
- LEONARD ERIC NYBERGLance Corporal · April 4, 1970
- JAMES WILLIAM MCGUIRESergeant · April 29, 1970
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.