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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Daniel McCarthy Mann.

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DANIEL MCCARTHY MANN

Lieutenant (junior grade) · U.S. Navy

July 3, 1942 – April 7, 1967

Service record

Daniel McCarthy Mann, of Waukegan, Illinois, served as a Lieutenant (junior grade) in the U.S. Navy. He died on April 7, 1967, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 117 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 17E · Line 117

Position of Panel 17E 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. Navy
Rank
Lieutenant (junior grade) (LTJG)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Url No Warfare Specialty (1105)
Born
July 3, 1942
Home of record
Waukegan, Illinois (Lake County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 7, 1967
Age
24
Province
Gia Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

26 names on the Wall carry the date April 7, 1967; two of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 17E, Line 117

From Waukegan

All 23 names from Waukegan →

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.