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DARRYL JAY KOCH
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 11, 1943 – April 15, 1967
Service recordDarryl Jay Koch, of Hartland, Wisconsin, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 15, 1967, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 30
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- March 11, 1943
- Home of record
- Hartland, Wisconsin (Waukesha County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 15, 1967
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date April 15, 1967; 15 of them were lost in Long An Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 73 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 30
- ROBERT LEROY LAZEARFirst Lieutenant · April 15, 1967
- JIMMY CARL MCCARTERPrivate First Class · April 15, 1967
- ROBERT ALLEN MCCARTNEYSergeant · April 15, 1967
- WAYNE LEE MIDDLETONPrivate First Class · April 15, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JAMES ROY BIHLMEYERPrivate First Class · Panel 18E, Line 28
- GEORGE LEE CAMPBELLSpecialist Four · Panel 18E, Line 28
- ROBERT LESTER FLORY JRFirst Lieutenant · Panel 18E, Line 29
- WILLIAM C HURTSpecialist Four · Panel 18E, Line 29
- LARRY SCOTT JENSENSpecialist Four · Panel 18E, Line 29
- RAYMOND L KATZENBERGERSpecialist Four · Panel 18E, Line 29
- ROBERT LEROY LAZEARFirst Lieutenant · Panel 18E, Line 30
- JIMMY CARL MCCARTERPrivate First Class · Panel 18E, Line 30
- WAYNE LEE MIDDLETONPrivate First Class · Panel 18E, Line 30
- LAWRENCE JOHN REICHERTSpecialist Four · Panel 18E, Line 31
- ROBERT AGUILARSpecialist Four · Panel 18E, Line 32
- JAMES ROBERT UTTERSpecialist Four · Panel 18E, Line 32
- RICHARD ALDEN VINALSpecialist Four · Panel 18E, Line 32
From Hartland
- THOMAS JAMES CARSTENSCorporal · August 14, 1967
- DONALD ALBERT SUDBRINKSpecialist Four · January 1, 1970
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.