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DARRELL LEE TUCKER
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
April 29, 1947 – July 6, 1969
Service recordDarrell Lee Tucker, of Connell, Washington, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on July 6, 1969, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 72 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21W · Line 72
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
- Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Radarman (RD)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- April 29, 1947
- Home of record
- Connell, Washington (Franklin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 6, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date July 6, 1969; two of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 21W, Line 72
- RUSSELL CHESTER NICOLAICorporal · July 6, 1969
- WILLIAM MICHAEL SHORTPrivate First Class · July 6, 1969
- WARD GRAY SNEEDSergeant First Class · July 6, 1969
- LEONARD DANIEL WARDSpecialist Four · July 6, 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.