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DANNY GENE WEST
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 14, 1948 – October 28, 1968
Service recordDanny Gene West, of Cushing, Oklahoma, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 28, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 40W, Line 52 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40W · Line 52
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
- Multichannel Transmission Systems (31M)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 92 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- January 14, 1948
- Home of record
- Cushing, Oklahoma (Payne County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 28, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date October 28, 1968; two of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “92 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 40W, Line 52
- DAVID STUART TAYLOR JRCorporal · October 28, 1968
- GEORGE ROBERT TUNISONFirst Lieutenant · October 28, 1968
- HARRY LEON WELLSSergeant · October 28, 1968
- STEVEN NEIL BEZOLDCaptain · October 29, 1968
From Cushing
- JERRY MONROE MCWHORTERSergeant · March 22, 1966
- RAYMOND DALE RHAMYPrivate First Class · June 25, 1967
- ROBERT HARRIS BRUNSLance Corporal · December 4, 1967
- ROBERT DON FAIRESSpecialist Four · January 26, 1968
- DENNIS RAY MASONPrivate First Class · May 1, 1968
- DENNIS OWEN CULLUMCorporal · May 17, 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.