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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 Lee Brock.

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DANIEL LEE BROCK

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

October 25, 1947 – March 1, 1970

Service record

Daniel Lee Brock, of Forest Park, Georgia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 1, 1970, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 13W, Line 70 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 13W · Line 70

Position of Panel 13W 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)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
October 25, 1947
Home of record
Forest Park, Georgia (Clayton County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 1, 1970
Age
22
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

12 names on the Wall carry the date March 1, 1970; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In March 1970, 625 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 77 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 13W, Line 70

From Forest Park

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.