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DANNY LEE MCDONALD
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 28, 1946 – October 30, 1966
Service recordDanny Lee McDonald, of Eureka, Kansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 30, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 132 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 11E · Line 132
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
- Wireman (36A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- A BTRY 2 BN 35 ARTY 54 ARTY GRP
- Born
- March 28, 1946
- Home of record
- Eureka, Kansas (Greenwood County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 30, 1966
- Age
- 20
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
14 names on the Wall carry the date October 30, 1966. In October 1966, 516 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 11E, Line 132
- HENRY ARDPlatoon Sergeant · October 31, 1966
- JOHN RAYMOND BOWLING SRSpecialist Four · October 31, 1966
- NATHANIEL BROWNStaff Sergeant · October 31, 1966
- HOWARD CLANTONPrivate First Class · October 31, 1966
From Eureka
- GEORGE LEROY SAMUELSPrivate First Class · April 8, 1966
- DONALD ALLEN LEWISSergeant · August 26, 1966
- WILLIAM ALLEN HAWTHORNEPrivate First Class · November 20, 1967
- CHARLES CLIFFORD BAILEYPrivate First Class · June 2, 1968
- DONALD DEAN WINNSpecialist Four · January 1, 1971
- NEWELL F APPLEGATE SRSergeant Major · April 10, 1971
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.