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DARWIN JAMES DELANO
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 23, 1947 – November 26, 1968
Service recordDarwin James Delano, of Hinsdale, New Hampshire, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 26, 1968, in Ninh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 38W, Line 65 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38W · Line 65
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Materiel Control And Accounting Specialist (76P)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 589 ENG CO USARV
- Born
- May 23, 1947
- Home of record
- Hinsdale, New Hampshire (Cheshire County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 26, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Ninh Thuan
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date November 26, 1968; two of them were lost in Ninh Thuan Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “589 ENG CO USARV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 38W, Line 65
- CHARLES DENNISPrivate First Class · November 26, 1968
- JAMES DONALD DORANChief Warrant Officer 2 · November 26, 1968
- WILLIAM MICHAEL EBELSergeant · November 26, 1968
- MONICO FLORES JRLance Corporal · November 26, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RONALD JOHN MOEFirst Lieutenant · Panel 38W, Line 67
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.