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DARREL GENE BITTNER
Sergeant · U.S. Army
June 28, 1943 – May 8, 1969
Service recordDarrel Gene Bittner, of Marshalltown, Iowa, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 8, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25W · Line 20
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Basic (13A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- C BTRY 6 BN 15 ARTY 23 ARTY GRP
- Born
- June 28, 1943
- Home of record
- Marshalltown, Iowa (Marshall County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 8, 1969
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date May 8, 1969; six of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 25W, Line 20
- JIM ALBERT BARTONPrivate First Class · May 8, 1969
- CHARLES GEORGE BOLINGPrivate First Class · May 8, 1969
- MELVIN BOLTONPrivate First Class · May 8, 1969
- ARTURO PELAJIOPrivate First Class · May 8, 1969
From Marshalltown
- HARVEY WOODFORD GILBERTPrivate First Class · August 13, 1966
- ROBERT DOUGLAS KINGWarrant Officer 1 · December 4, 1967
- RICHARD CHARLES WESTBERGPrivate First Class · March 10, 1968
- STANLEY RICHARD SMITHMajor · May 11, 1968
- DONALD DENNIS WEYKERSpecialist Four · December 5, 1968
- JOHN EDWARD SLATERSecond Lieutenant · December 15, 1968
- DAVID LYNN RUTGERSPrivate First Class · February 25, 1969
- WILLIAM RUSSELL MCKIBBENCaptain · April 25, 1970
- RANDY LEE MASTSergeant · June 5, 1970
- KENNETH WAYNE TUCKERCorporal · February 15, 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.