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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Daniel Gene Dorman.

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DANIEL GENE DORMAN

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

May 17, 1947 – July 11, 1971

Service record

Daniel Gene Dorman, of Richmond, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 11, 1971, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 106 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 3W · Line 106

Position of Panel 3W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Unit Supply Specialist (76Y)
Unit (as recorded)
US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
Born
May 17, 1947
Home of record
Richmond, California (Contra Costa County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 11, 1971
Age
24
Province
Bien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Infectious Disease

Context · from the records

What was happening

Six names on the Wall carry the date July 11, 1971; he was the only one lost in Bien Hoa Province that day. In July 1971, 118 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 34 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 3W, Line 106

From Richmond

All 32 names from Richmond →

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.