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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Danny Lee Boone.

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DANNY LEE BOONE

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

August 18, 1949 – May 19, 1968

Service record

Danny Lee Boone, of Ludlow, Kentucky, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 19, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 63E, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 63E · Line 4

Position of Panel 63E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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 Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
August 18, 1949
Home of record
Ludlow, Kentucky (Kenton County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 19, 1968
Age
18
Province
Bien Hoa
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 19, 1968; two of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 151 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 63E, Line 4

Same unit, same day

From Ludlow

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.