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DANIEL LEROY STRONG
Lieutenant Commander · U.S. Navy
April 4, 1937 – October 26, 1966
Service recordDaniel Leroy Strong, of Big Bear City, California, served as a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 26, 1966, in North Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 116 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 11E · Line 116
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
- Lieutenant Commander (LCDR)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1310)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- April 4, 1937
- Home of record
- Big Bear City, California (San Bernardino County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 26, 1966
- Age
- 29
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
54 names on the Wall carry the date October 26, 1966. In October 1966, 516 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 11E, Line 116
- WILLIAM ALLEN JOHNSONLieutenant (junior grade) · October 26, 1966
- RONALD ENRIQUE TARDIOEnsign · October 26, 1966
- FRANKLIN MICHAEL TUNICKLieutenant (junior grade) · October 26, 1966
- WILLIAM WALLINGFireman · October 26, 1966
Same unit, same day
- TERRENCE JAY FREUNDPetty Officer Second Class · Panel 11E, Line 109
- LLOYD PATTERSON HYDELieutenant · Panel 11E, Line 111
From Big Bear City
- JACK DALE KNEPPChief Warrant Officer 2 · November 29, 1969
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.