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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Daniel Joseph Noble.

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DANIEL JOSEPH NOBLE

Constructionman · U.S. Navy

March 1, 1949 – October 18, 1968

Service record

Daniel Joseph Noble, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, served as a Constructionman in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 18, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 40W, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 40W · Line 1

Position of Panel 40W 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. Navy
Rank
Constructionman (CN)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Builder (BU)
Born
March 1, 1949
Home of record
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Casualty

Date of death
October 18, 1968
Age
19
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Drowning

Context · from the records

What was happening

23 names on the Wall carry the date October 18, 1968; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 40W, Line 1

From Baton Rouge

All 46 names from Baton Rouge →

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.