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DANNY FRANKLIN PERKINS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
October 21, 1946 – March 29, 1969
Service recordDanny Franklin Perkins, of Mount Holly, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 29, 1969, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 84 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 84
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
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- October 21, 1946
- Home of record
- Mount Holly, North Carolina (Gaston County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 29, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date March 29, 1969; three of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 174 of its members that month.
Read the history
Also on Panel 28W, Line 84
- JULIO MALABELance Corporal · March 29, 1969
- ROBERT ALTON MULHOLLANDPrivate First Class · March 29, 1969
- LEA EVERETT NIBBELINKPrivate First Class · March 29, 1969
- JOHN LEROY PARTEESergeant First Class · March 29, 1969
Same unit, same day
- STEPHEN DOUGLAS BOARDStaff Sergeant · Panel 28W, Line 78
- KENNETH HENRY VISINTINCorporal · Panel 28W, Line 87
From Mount Holly
- BEVERLY COSTNER WARESpecialist Four · April 26, 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.