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A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967.
A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, DASPO, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Daryl Kenneth Stannard.

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DARYL KENNETH STANNARD

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

October 9, 1939 – May 14, 1966

Service record

Daryl Kenneth Stannard, of Fair Haven, New York, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 14, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 7E, Line 60 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 7E · Line 60

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant First Class (SFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Combat Engineer (12B)
Unit (as recorded)
SPECIAL FORCES
Born
October 9, 1939
Home of record
Fair Haven, New York (Cayuga County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 14, 1966
Age
26
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

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What was happening

16 names on the Wall carry the date May 14, 1966. In May 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 7E, Line 60

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.