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DARYLE WAYNE BATT
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
April 13, 1926 – April 27, 1969
Service recordDaryle Wayne Batt, of Burt, Iowa, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 27, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 43. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26W · Line 59
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- April 13, 1926
- Home of record
- Burt, Iowa (Kossuth County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 27, 1969
- Age
- 43
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date April 27, 1969; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 83 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 26W, Line 59
- JAMES DAMION VALOVSpecialist Five · April 26, 1969
- ALFONSO AUGUSTUS WEBBLance Corporal · April 26, 1969
- ALBERT DELGADO AUSTIN JRSpecialist Five · April 27, 1969
- ARNOLD REX BRAYSpecialist Four · April 27, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ALBERT DELGADO AUSTIN JRSpecialist Five · Panel 26W, Line 59
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.