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Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970.
Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Danny Russell Ward.

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DANNY RUSSELL WARD

Private First Class · U.S. Army

August 27, 1946 – November 8, 1965

Service record

Danny Russell Ward, of Beauty, Kentucky, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 8, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 3E · Line 38

Position of Panel 3E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
173 AIRBORNE BDE
Born
August 27, 1946
Home of record
Beauty, Kentucky (Martin County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 8, 1965
Age
19
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

50 names on the Wall carry the date November 8, 1965. In November 1965, 545 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 52 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 3E, Line 38

Same unit, same day

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.