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DARRELL LEROY ENGLE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 11, 1948 – December 23, 1968
Service recordDarrell Leroy Engle, of Lawndale, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 23, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 68 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 68
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- March 11, 1948
- Home of record
- Lawndale, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 23, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Died of other causes
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date December 23, 1968; he was the only one lost in Bình Định Province that day. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 68
- JACK HENRY CURRYPrivate First Class · December 23, 1968
- GARY LEE FAINSergeant · December 23, 1968
- RICHARD JOSEPH FORTEPrivate First Class · December 23, 1968
- THOMAS JOE HOECKELBERGSpecialist Five · December 23, 1968
From Lawndale
- JIMMY DEVER BACCUSPrivate First Class · July 28, 1966
- RICKFORD RAY SCHMIDTPrivate First Class · January 9, 1967
- WILLIAM A THORNTON JRFirst Lieutenant · February 1, 1968
- JERRY DOYLE ATKINSONCorporal · March 30, 1968
- BOBBY JOE GRAVELSpecialist Four · April 6, 1968
- BRUCE STUART LINDSAYLance Corporal · May 4, 1968
- BYRON LEE NOTT JRSecond Lieutenant · December 31, 1968
- DALE GEORGE HELGESONSergeant · March 1, 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.