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DARNELL JOSEPH SONGNE
Hospitalman · U.S. Navy
October 4, 1948 – September 17, 1968
Service recordDarnell Joseph Songne, of Abbeville, Louisiana, served as a Hospitalman in the U.S. Navy. He died on September 17, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 43W, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43W · Line 23
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. Navy
- Rank
- Hospitalman (HN)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- October 4, 1948
- Home of record
- Abbeville, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 17, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
64 names on the Wall carry the date September 17, 1968; 17 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 43W, Line 23
- FRANK ALBERT SKOCICHPrivate First Class · September 17, 1968
- LLOYD HENRY SMITHPrivate First Class · September 17, 1968
- WARREN ALLEN SMITHPrivate First Class · September 17, 1968
- BILLIE GRANVILLE STRICKLANDSergeant · September 17, 1968
From Abbeville
- PAUL JOSEPH SIMONPrivate First Class · July 7, 1967
- RICHARD FRANKLIN ABSHIRESergeant · May 2, 1968
- EARL J GUILLORYSergeant · May 23, 1968
- KING DAVID WASHINGTONPrivate First Class · November 30, 1968
- FARRELL JAMES VICESpecialist Four · May 24, 1969
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.