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DANIEL ERNEST TOGNERI
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 21, 1948 – May 16, 1967
Service recordDaniel Ernest Togneri, of New York, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 16, 1967, in Kien Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20E · Line 11
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- May 21, 1948
- Home of record
- New York, New York (Kings County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 16, 1967
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Kien Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date May 16, 1967; he was the only one lost in Kien Tuong Province that day. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20E, Line 11
- RALPH DENNIS SALERNOPrivate · May 16, 1967
- JOHN CLYDE SILVERCorporal · May 16, 1967
- DWIGHT ROSS STOCKHOLMPrivate First Class · May 16, 1967
- BICKETT ORLANDO WADE JRSpecialist Four · May 16, 1967
From New York
- WALTER R MCCARTHY JRCaptain · June 16, 1962
- JOHN HOWARD MCCLEANCaptain · August 16, 1963
- DONALD ALLAN MOLLICONEFirst Lieutenant · December 20, 1963
- VINCENT JOSEPH HICKMANCaptain · January 14, 1964
- MARTIN STOCKFEDERPrivate First Class · July 15, 1964
- ROBERT GEORGE ARMSTRONGFirst Lieutenant · October 24, 1964
- DOMINICK SANSONESergeant First Class · December 10, 1964
- DONALD GILBERT COOKColonel · December 31, 1964
- TERENCE MEREDITH MURPHYLieutenant (junior grade) · April 9, 1965
- ROBERT CARL WISTRANDColonel · May 9, 1965
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.