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DANIEL WARD GLEASON
Private First Class · U.S. Army
October 22, 1943 – February 23, 1969
Service recordDaniel Ward Gleason, of Bay City, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 23, 1969, in Darlac Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 31W, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31W · Line 1
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- October 22, 1943
- Home of record
- Bay City, Michigan (Bay County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 23, 1969
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Darlac
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
209 names on the Wall carry the date February 23, 1969; two of them were lost in Darlac Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 32 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 31W, Line 1
- TIMOTHY LAWRENCE GILSONLance Corporal · February 23, 1969
- EARNEST WILMER GRAHAMPrivate First Class · February 23, 1969
- HERBERT RAYMOND GRANTSergeant First Class · February 23, 1969
- GARY DEAN JUDDCorporal · February 23, 1969
Same unit, same day
- NATHAN EARL HULLETTPrivate First Class · Panel 31W, Line 5
From Bay City
- JERALD DUANE FRITZPrivate First Class · June 30, 1966
- MICHAEL EDWARD ALDERSONPrivate First Class · March 11, 1967
- JOHN DONALD ROCHESergeant First Class · December 15, 1967
- JAMES LARRY BURNEYPrivate First Class · January 8, 1968
- ALGER LAWRENCE WHITE JRSpecialist Five · February 7, 1968
- ROBERT JOHN BENSONPrivate First Class · April 6, 1968
- ROBERT JAMES KLINELance Corporal · April 10, 1968
- JESSE CARMONA JRCorporal · May 3, 1968
- TERRANCE W ALLENSergeant · May 6, 1968
- ROGER RALPH MOLLSpecialist Four · August 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.