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DANIEL LEWIS WENTE
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
July 4, 1941 – April 3, 1967
Service recordDaniel Lewis Wente, of Neoga, Illinois, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 3, 1967, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 94 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 94
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- July 4, 1941
- Home of record
- Neoga, Illinois (Cumberland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 3, 1967
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
13 names on the Wall carry the date April 3, 1967; he was the only one lost in Hua Nghia Province that day. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 17E, Line 94
- ALVIN CHARLES MCMANN JRSpecialist Four · April 2, 1967
- KENNETH M THIBAULTPrivate First Class · April 2, 1967
- VANCE GEORGE WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · April 2, 1967
- JOHNNY MACK WOODCorporal · April 2, 1967
From Neoga
- RAYMOND LEWIS WILLIAMSCorporal · April 9, 1970
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.