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DANIEL EARL WINTERS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
October 19, 1948 – October 8, 1968
Service recordDaniel Earl Winters, of Bridge City, Texas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on October 8, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 41W, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41W · Line 33
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- October 19, 1948
- Home of record
- Bridge City, Texas (Orange County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 8, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Burns/Smoke Inhalation
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date October 8, 1968; six of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 41W, Line 33
- ROBERT LEE URBANPrivate First Class · October 8, 1968
- LARRY WILLIAM WATSONPrivate First Class · October 8, 1968
- WILLIAM EVERETT WYROSDICCorporal · October 8, 1968
- WARDELL LESTER ARMSTRONGPrivate First Class · October 9, 1968
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.