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DANNY EUGENE BLEVINS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 14, 1949 – March 15, 1968
Service recordDanny Eugene Blevins, of Alcoa, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 15, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 57
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- May 14, 1949
- Home of record
- Alcoa, Tennessee (Blount County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 15, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date March 15, 1968; six of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 208 of its members that month.
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 44E, Line 57
- WILBERT RAY BARBEESpecialist Four · March 15, 1968
- PAUL LEE BIGELOWPrivate First Class · March 15, 1968
- CHARLES LARRY BONNERSergeant · March 15, 1968
- SAMUEL JEROME FRIESONPrivate First Class · March 15, 1968
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM W DAVIS JRPrivate First Class · Panel 44E, Line 58
From Alcoa
- DONALD LUTHER DOTSONStaff Sergeant · January 29, 1966
- CLAUDE ARTHUR WILLIAMSSpecialist Six · April 21, 1971
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.