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DANNY HOSKINS
Corporal · U.S. Army
June 14, 1942 – May 25, 1968
Service recordDanny Hoskins, of Trenton, Ohio, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on May 25, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 68W, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 68W · Line 3
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- June 14, 1942
- Home of record
- Trenton, Ohio (Butler County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 25, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
89 names on the Wall carry the date May 25, 1968; three of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 70 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 68W, Line 3
- DANIEL JOHN HOMMELCorporal · May 25, 1968
- MICHAEL EUGENE HOPPERSPrivate · May 25, 1968
- JAMES HERMAN JACKSONCorporal · May 25, 1968
- BARTON WENDELL JOHNSONPrivate First Class · May 25, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LINWOOD GOUGHCorporal · Panel 68W, Line 1
From Trenton
- LEE ROY COMBSPrivate First Class · March 27, 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.