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DANIEL NEIL HEATER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 12, 1949 – March 12, 1970
Service recordDaniel Neil Heater, of Gas City, Indiana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 12, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 13W, Line 117 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13W · Line 117
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
- January 12, 1949
- Home of record
- Gas City, Indiana (Grant County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 12, 1970
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
34 names on the Wall carry the date March 12, 1970; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên 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 117
- ANTHONY MARTIN M BLASSpecialist Five · March 12, 1970
- ALBERT JAMES FARRELL JRPrivate First Class · March 12, 1970
- JOSE OSCAR GARCIAStaff Sergeant · March 12, 1970
- WALTER JAMES HAMPTONPrivate First Class · March 12, 1970
Same unit, same day
- DUDLEY DAVISFirst Lieutenant · Panel 13W, Line 116
- ANTHONY MARTIN M BLASSpecialist Five · Panel 13W, Line 117
- JACK WILLIAM MESSERSergeant · Panel 13W, Line 119
- GERALD DELMAR SHANORCorporal · Panel 13W, Line 120
From Gas City
- LARRY LEE MORRISPrivate First Class · June 7, 1967
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.