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DANNY DAY ENTRICAN
Captain · U.S. Army
August 12, 1946 – May 18, 1971
Service recordDanny Day Entrican, of Brookhaven, Mississippi, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He was lost on May 18, 1971, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 39 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3W · Line 39
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
- Captain (CPT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- August 12, 1946
- Home of record
- Brookhaven, Mississippi (Lincoln County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- May 18, 1971
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
Six names on the Wall carry the date May 18, 1971; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In May 1971, 202 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 3W, Line 39
- DALE ALLEN PEARCEWarrant Officer 1 · May 17, 1971
- LARRY LEE ROBINSONSergeant · May 17, 1971
- DAVID PECOR SOYLANDChief Warrant Officer 3 · May 17, 1971
- DALE WILLARD DEHNKEStaff Sergeant · May 18, 1971
Same unit, same day
- DALE WILLARD DEHNKEStaff Sergeant · Panel 3W, Line 39
- GARY LYNN HOLLINGSWORTHSpecialist Five · Panel 3W, Line 40
From Brookhaven
- DAVID ROY EASLEYLance Corporal · April 9, 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.