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DANNY GILBERT SCHWARTZ
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 2, 1948 – January 10, 1969
Service recordDanny Gilbert Schwartz, of Aspen, Colorado, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 10, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 35W, Line 68 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35W · Line 68
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Aircraft Powertrain Repairer (68D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- AMERICAL DIV
- Born
- May 2, 1948
- Home of record
- Aspen, Colorado (Pitkin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 10, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date January 10, 1969; he was the only one lost in Quảng Tín Province that day. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 35W, Line 68
- MICHAEL ARTHUR FONTAINESpecialist Four · January 10, 1969
- VINCENT VENUTI JRPrivate First Class · January 10, 1969
- NORMAN LEE VONAHRENSPrivate First Class · January 10, 1969
From Aspen
- WILLIAM LEONARD SANDERSENSpecialist Four · August 19, 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.