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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Daniel Lee Ault.

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DANIEL LEE AULT

Corporal · U.S. Army

November 28, 1949 – August 10, 1968

Service record

Daniel Lee Ault, of Mountville, Pennsylvania, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on August 10, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 49W, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 49W · Line 38

Position of Panel 49W 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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
November 28, 1949
Home of record
Mountville, Pennsylvania (Lancaster County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 10, 1968
Age
18
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

40 names on the Wall carry the date August 10, 1968; 15 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 86 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 49W, Line 38

Same unit, same day

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.