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DANIEL PESIMER
Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
February 6, 1942 – March 31, 1968
Service recordDaniel Pesimer, of Salt Rock, West Virginia, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 31, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47E · Line 25
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- February 6, 1942
- Home of record
- Salt Rock, West Virginia (Cabell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 31, 1968
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date March 31, 1968; 30 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 47E, Line 25
- ERASMO PALOSLance Corporal · March 31, 1968
- JERRY LEE PATRICKSpecialist Five · March 31, 1968
- THOMAS PIERRE PRUIETT JRPrivate First Class · March 31, 1968
- DON JUNIOR YELVERTONSpecialist Four · March 31, 1968
From Salt Rock
- RODNEY KENT RANSONPrivate First Class · November 20, 1969
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.