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DANIEL FRANK FENNEWALD
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 6, 1943 – May 3, 1968
Service recordDaniel Frank Fennewald, of Spanish Lake, Missouri, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 3, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 54E, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 54E · Line 25
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 Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- December 6, 1943
- Home of record
- Spanish Lake, Missouri (St Louis County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 3, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date May 3, 1968; 13 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 71 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 54E, Line 25
- RONALD RICHARD GAMBLECorporal · May 3, 1968
- BRIAN GREGORY HUGHESSergeant · May 3, 1968
- WILLIAM IVAN INMANCorporal · May 3, 1968
- EDMOND A JABLONSKY JRCaptain · May 3, 1968
Same unit, same day
- PAUL LEROY BARKERPrivate First Class · Panel 54E, Line 23
- ARNOLD LEE BOLINDERSpecialist Four · Panel 54E, Line 23
From Spanish Lake
- MICHAEL GARY LANGSTONLance Corporal · May 5, 1967
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.