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DANIEL RICHARD HIVELY
Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 9, 1949 – July 10, 1970
Service recordDaniel Richard Hively, of Danville, Ohio, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 10, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 8W, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 8W · Line 7
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- August 9, 1949
- Home of record
- Danville, Ohio (Knox County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 10, 1970
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date July 10, 1970; five of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In July 1970, 495 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 114 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 8W, Line 7
- VICTOR LEE DEFOORCorporal · July 10, 1970
- JOE B DELAPHIANOLance Corporal · July 10, 1970
- PAUL JERRY FOUCHESpecialist Four · July 10, 1970
- ROGER DALE HARTNESSCorporal · July 10, 1970
Same unit, same day
- PATRICK JOHN BOHANPrivate First Class · Panel 8W, Line 6
- VICTOR LEE DEFOORCorporal · Panel 8W, Line 7
- ROY ALBERT JOHNSONSpecialist Four · Panel 8W, Line 8
- FREDRICK CAROL RAYMOND JRSpecialist Four · Panel 8W, Line 8
From Danville
- STEPHEN LYNN COLOPYSpecialist Four · April 23, 1967
- DAVID LEE CAREYPrivate First Class · March 8, 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.