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DANIEL OWEN ABERNATHY
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
November 1, 1946 – August 24, 1968
Service recordDaniel Owen Abernathy, of Burlington, New Jersey, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 24, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 47W, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47W · Line 58
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
- Occupation
- Tank Unit Commander (1203)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- November 1, 1946
- Home of record
- Burlington, New Jersey (Burlington County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 24, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date August 24, 1968; three of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 47W, Line 58
- EARL CLIFFORD WILSONPrivate First Class · August 23, 1968
- GREGORY WOODSPrivate First Class · August 23, 1968
- CHARLES FRED WRIGHTSergeant · August 23, 1968
- WILLIAM RONALD YOUNGBLOODSpecialist Four · August 23, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ALBERT R GUTIERREZ JRPrivate First Class · Panel 46W, Line 2
From Burlington
- FRANK OGBURN JRPrivate First Class · July 2, 1966
- THOMAS ALLEN LOWDENStaff Sergeant · September 27, 1966
- JAMES HORACE KENNARDPrivate First Class · November 19, 1966
- HAROLD HENASEYPrivate First Class · April 29, 1968
- CHESTER MICHAEL RENCEVICZLance Corporal · July 27, 1968
- ROBERT CHARLES DAVISMajor · May 2, 1975
- EZRA BUDD MARTERSergeant · April 1, 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.