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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Darrell James Naylor.

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DARRELL JAMES NAYLOR

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

October 24, 1944 – January 5, 2006

Service record

Darrell James Naylor, of Balko Beaver, Oklahoma, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 5, 2006, in Bong Son Province, South Vietnam, at age 61. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 18E · Line 53

Position of Panel 18E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Temp/Perm Disability Retired List (Over 120 Days)
Unit (as recorded)
CO B 2ND BN 8TH CAV 1ST CAV DIV (AM)
Born
October 24, 1944
Home of record
Balko Beaver, Oklahoma

Casualty

Date of death
January 5, 2006
Age
61
Province
Bong Son
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Gunshot

Context · from the records

What was happening

One name on the Wall carry the date January 5, 2006; he was the only one lost in Bong Son Province that day. In January 2006, 1 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 18E, Line 53

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; panel and line confirmed against the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund’s Wall of Faces because the federal record was incomplete. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.