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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 James Mack.

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DANIEL JAMES MACK

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

August 23, 1942 – April 5, 1966

Service record

Daniel James Mack, of Marion, South Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 5, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 85 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 6E · Line 85

Position of Panel 6E 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
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
August 23, 1942
Home of record
Marion, South Carolina (Marion County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 5, 1966
Age
23
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

21 names on the Wall carry the date April 5, 1966. In April 1966, 406 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 61 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 6E, Line 85

Same unit, same day

From Marion

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.