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Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970.
Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Darrell Wayne Butts.

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DARRELL WAYNE BUTTS

Private First Class · U.S. Army

March 27, 1948 – June 22, 1967

Service record

Darrell Wayne Butts, of Wichita, Kansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 22, 1967, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 22E, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 22E · Line 36

Position of Panel 22E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
173 AIRBORNE BDE
Born
March 27, 1948
Home of record
Wichita, Kansas (Sedgwick County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 22, 1967
Age
19
Province
Kontum
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

87 names on the Wall carry the date June 22, 1967; 78 of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 85 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 22E, Line 36

Same unit, same day

From Wichita

All 89 names from Wichita →

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.