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DANIEL PERRY
Gunnery Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
May 10, 1934 – April 27, 1968
Service recordDaniel Perry, of Fall River, Massachusetts, served as a Gunnery Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 27, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 52E, Line 31 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 52E · Line 31
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Gunnery Sergeant (GYSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Leader (0369)
- Born
- May 10, 1934
- Home of record
- Fall River, Massachusetts (Bristol County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 27, 1968
- Age
- 33
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date April 27, 1968; three of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 52E, Line 31
- LOYD EUGENE KINSWORTHYCorporal · April 27, 1968
- TIMOTHY LEE ODELLPrivate First Class · April 27, 1968
- FRED OLIVER JRCorporal · April 27, 1968
- MICHAEL WILLIAM ORASHPrivate First Class · April 27, 1968
From Fall River
- DONALD CHARLES JOHANSENFirst Lieutenant · October 20, 1963
- LOUIS PHILLIP GAGNE JRSpecialist Four · September 30, 1966
- DONALD GAGNELance Corporal · November 4, 1966
- RONALD FRANCIS LAKECorporal · April 4, 1967
- RICHARD HENRY ALMEIDALance Corporal · May 3, 1967
- THOMAS ALBERT DEROSIERCaptain · July 7, 1967
- ALFRED JOHN GASPARCorporal · July 29, 1967
- ALBERT WILLARD SANTOSLance Corporal · September 4, 1967
- MICHAEL JOHN MEDEIROSLance Corporal · December 16, 1967
- JOSEPH VIEIRASpecialist Four · January 23, 1968
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.