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DANNY LEE DAWSON
Private First Class · U.S. Army
June 29, 1951 – April 10, 1970
Service recordDanny Lee Dawson, of Charleston, West Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 10, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 12W, Line 116 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 12W · Line 116
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
- Tactical Wire Operations Specialist (36K)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 SIGNAL BDE
- Born
- June 29, 1951
- Home of record
- Charleston, West Virginia (Kanawha County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 10, 1970
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date April 10, 1970; three of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 SIGNAL BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 12W, Line 116
- DONALD CHARLES TANNENBAUMCaptain · April 9, 1970
- RAYMOND LEWIS WILLIAMSCorporal · April 9, 1970
- JACK LEE WRIGHTChief Petty Officer · April 9, 1970
- JIMMY CARRILLOSpecialist Four · April 10, 1970
From Charleston
- CHARLES EDWIN HUDDLE JRCaptain · March 21, 1965
- JOHN ROBERT BALLFirst Lieutenant · June 19, 1965
- TIMOTHY MORGAN BLAKESecond Lieutenant · November 15, 1965
- CURTIS ESTILL BINIONFirst Lieutenant · July 5, 1966
- WILLIAM OMER HILLSpecialist Five · December 11, 1966
- JOHN LEE STRICKLANDPrivate First Class · January 11, 1967
- CHARLES EDWARD BOGGSPrivate First Class · March 6, 1967
- EDWARD WALLACE BROWN JRSergeant First Class · May 1, 1967
- JAMES ROBERT SIMMONSStaff Sergeant · October 14, 1967
- CHARLES EDWARD ROBERTSONPetty Officer Third Class · November 19, 1967
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.