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DANIEL LEE CARR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
October 26, 1943 – September 10, 1968
Service recordDaniel Lee Carr, of North Platte, Nebraska, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 10, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 44W, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44W · Line 15
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- October 26, 1943
- Home of record
- North Platte, Nebraska (Lincoln County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 10, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date September 10, 1968; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 90 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 44W, Line 15
- RALPH WILLIAM BYRNESStaff Sergeant · September 10, 1968
- JAMES BRUCE CALDWELLLance Corporal · September 10, 1968
- SCOTT MARSHALL CARPENTERPrivate First Class · September 10, 1968
- GLENN CARTERPrivate First Class · September 10, 1968
Same unit, same day
- PATRICK DENNIS FAYSpecialist Four · Panel 44W, Line 16
- ALAN JAMES MEISHEIDPrivate First Class · Panel 44W, Line 18
From North Platte
- RUSSELL DEAN NEEDHAMPrivate First Class · May 22, 1967
- DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOURLance Corporal · July 4, 1967
- JOHN EDWARD DAVISPrivate First Class · December 13, 1967
- ELBERT BERTON WALKERPrivate First Class · April 3, 1968
- ISMAEL FERNANDO HORNELASCorporal · April 8, 1969
- THOMAS GABRIEL SOTOStaff Sergeant · May 18, 1969
- ROBERT LEE YOUNGSpecialist Four · January 27, 1970
- LESTER KEITH TAYLOR JRSergeant · March 17, 1970
- ROBERT EUGENE BARNHILLSpecialist Four · November 8, 1970
- LARRY JEROME NEWMANTechnical Sergeant · June 18, 1972
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.