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DANNY KAYE RICH
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
August 23, 1947 – May 6, 1968
Service recordDanny Kaye Rich, of Roseville, California, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on May 6, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 56E, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 56E · Line 14
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- August 23, 1947
- Home of record
- Roseville, California (Placer County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 6, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
102 names on the Wall carry the date May 6, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 38 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 56E, Line 14
- TILGHMAN RICHARD MCLEMORECaptain · May 6, 1968
- KENNETH RAY NEWSOMELance Corporal · May 6, 1968
- PHILIP EUGENE PENNINGTONSergeant · May 6, 1968
- DENNIS PREMOCKSergeant · May 6, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT ALLYN WILSONCaptain · Panel 56E, Line 18
From Roseville
- MARIANO R NEGRANZA JRPrivate First Class · April 7, 1966
- JACK MARSTON HARRISSergeant · May 15, 1967
- JAMES ERVIN BOOTHMajor · June 23, 1968
- LESLIE WILLIAM ROYALL IIIHospitalman · July 7, 1968
- JOHN VINSON OCONNOR JRGunnery Sergeant · December 9, 1968
- ROBERT ALAN YATESLance Corporal · December 21, 1969
- BRUCE WAYNE BRACELance Corporal · March 30, 1970
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.