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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Daniel John Sullivan.

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DANIEL JOHN SULLIVAN

Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

November 16, 1938 – July 6, 1967

Service record

Daniel John Sullivan, of New York, New York, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 6, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 23E · Line 23

Position of Panel 23E 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Unit (as recorded)
E CO BLT 2/3 9 MAB
Born
November 16, 1938
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 6, 1967
Age
28
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

40 names on the Wall carry the date July 6, 1967; 30 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “E CO BLT 2/3 9 MAB”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 23E, Line 23

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.