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DARREL GENE PIERCE
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
January 14, 1946 – November 8, 1969
Service recordDarrel Gene Pierce, of Hillsboro, Missouri, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 8, 1969, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 16W, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16W · Line 46
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- January 14, 1946
- Home of record
- Hillsboro, Missouri (Jefferson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 8, 1969
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date November 8, 1969; he was the only one lost in Hua Nghia Province that day. In November 1969, 660 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 35 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 16W, Line 46
- CLINTON DWIGHT PIERCEPrivate First Class · November 8, 1969
- STEPHEN JAY PRASZYNSKICorporal · November 8, 1969
- NICHOLAS RALPH PROCINOSpecialist Four · November 8, 1969
- WILLIAM LEWIS REGERSpecialist Four · November 8, 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.