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DARREL ANDRE SHELLIE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 2, 1947 – February 1, 1968
Service recordDarrel Andre Shellie, of Detroit, Michigan, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 1, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 60 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36E · Line 60
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- November 2, 1947
- Home of record
- Detroit, Michigan (Wayne County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 1, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
96 names on the Wall carry the date February 1, 1968; 13 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 168 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 36E, Line 60
- LAWRENCE EUGENE HECKMANCorporal · February 1, 1968
- DORTY HINCHMAN SCOTT JRSergeant · February 1, 1968
- JEREMIAH SCOTTGunnery Sergeant · February 1, 1968
- JOHN FRANCIS SEVICKSecond Lieutenant · February 1, 1968
Same unit, same day
- BENJAMIN DAVIS GRANTPrivate First Class · Panel 36E, Line 49
- GEORGE A LUBESKY JRSergeant · Panel 36E, Line 55
- THOMAS MARK MARTICHPrivate First Class · Panel 36E, Line 55
- WESLEY RICE MOORE JRFirst Lieutenant · Panel 36E, Line 57
- BILLY LEE WRIGHTPrivate First Class · Panel 36E, Line 63
From Detroit
- SAMUEL EUGENE HURDAirman Third Class · January 3, 1964
- LEO BERT ABRAMOSKICaptain · July 28, 1964
- GEORGE PAUL ZUPANCICCorporal · June 26, 1965
- MARSHALL DANIEL HOLMANPrivate First Class · July 9, 1965
- ELIAS BELL JRCorporal · July 13, 1965
- ARTHUR F HAMMARSTROM JRLieutenant Colonel · July 24, 1965
- JAMES THOMAS CLARKPrivate · August 17, 1965
- BRUCE JAMES HENRICHPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- ROBERT TAGLIONESergeant · August 18, 1965
- MERRILL LAGENE LANTRYCorporal · September 2, 1965
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.