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DANIEL H LAWLER
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
February 25, 1943 – May 20, 1967
Service recordDaniel H Lawler, of Kinston, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on May 20, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 62 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20E · Line 62
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer Operation And Intelligence Nco (12D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- February 25, 1943
- Home of record
- Kinston, North Carolina (Lenoir County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 20, 1967
- Age
- 24
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
91 names on the Wall carry the date May 20, 1967. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 20E, Line 62
- MARK ROBERT LANDERPrivate First Class · May 20, 1967
- JOSEPH LEDESMA JRPrivate First Class · May 20, 1967
- VERNON LEROY LEINOPrivate First Class · May 20, 1967
- THOMAS LYNN LESTERPrivate First Class · May 20, 1967
Same unit, same day
- STANLEY MARTIN BAKERSecond Lieutenant · Panel 20E, Line 53
From Kinston
- JIMMIE LLOYD MCBYNUMStaff Sergeant · October 22, 1965
- CHARLES CURTIS WHITFIELDPrivate · February 24, 1966
- WOODROW WILSON HAM JRStaff Sergeant · March 4, 1966
- CURTIS RAY MCLAWHORNSergeant · July 22, 1967
- BOBBY LEE BARBERPrivate First Class · November 2, 1967
- CARL LEE HILL JRSpecialist Four · April 4, 1968
- SETH LEE WEST JRStaff Sergeant · April 16, 1968
- JOHNNY MILLERSpecialist Four · May 2, 1968
- DEMPSEY WOODROW PARROTTSpecialist Four · May 4, 1968
- VERNELL HENRY MILLER JRPrivate First Class · May 27, 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.