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DANIEL EDMUND KLOS JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 5, 1947 – November 12, 1967
Service recordDaniel Edmund Klos JR, of Cheektowaga, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 12, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 83 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29E · Line 83
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Multichannel Transmission Systems (31M)
- Unit (as recorded)
- A CO 37 SIG BN 1 SIG BDE
- Born
- December 5, 1947
- Home of record
- Cheektowaga, New York (Erie County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 12, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date November 12, 1967; seven of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “A CO 37 SIG BN 1 SIG BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 29E, Line 83
- JAMES GARY HOODPrivate First Class · November 12, 1967
- JAMES EARL JENKINSPrivate First Class · November 12, 1967
- JERRY CONRAD KELLEYSpecialist Four · November 12, 1967
- ROBERT CHARLES MELENDREZSpecialist Four · November 12, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JAMES GARY HOODPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 83
From Cheektowaga
- RICHARD A KNAUSPrivate First Class · December 27, 1966
- MICHAEL J HILBURGERSpecialist Four · May 1, 1967
- NEIL ELLIS BATEMANPrivate First Class · May 15, 1967
- JAMES MARK SKOMSKISpecialist Four · February 8, 1969
- RALPH THEODORE GLIMSpecialist Four · December 15, 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.