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DONNEY DELANEY
Private First Class · U.S. Army
April 1, 1948 – June 4, 1969
Service recordDonney Delaney, of Memphis, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 4, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 23W, Line 63 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23W · Line 63
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- April 1, 1948
- Home of record
- Memphis, Tennessee (Shelby County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 4, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date June 4, 1969; three of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 122 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 23W, Line 63
- FRANCO ANTONIO DITULLIOFirst Lieutenant · June 4, 1969
- PATRICK DALE FINCHSpecialist Four · June 4, 1969
- GREGORY GERALD FUCHSCaptain · June 4, 1969
- JOE ROBERT GARCIACorporal · June 4, 1969
Same unit, same day
- LEROY ROBERT CARDENASPrivate First Class · Panel 23W, Line 62
From Memphis
- JESSE ALEXANDER GRAYSergeant First Class · June 12, 1964
- ANDREW DAYTON PARKER JRMajor · June 18, 1965
- JOHN CARLOS HARRISSergeant · July 21, 1965
- WALTER LEWIS SMITHPrivate First Class · August 19, 1965
- CLAUDE TALBERT JRPrivate First Class · October 8, 1965
- WILLIAM CLYDE HARPERSergeant · October 10, 1965
- DANIEL DAVID HARDENSergeant · November 1, 1965
- RANDLE TOM WOODSLance Corporal · November 6, 1965
- KELLY EUGENE WHITAKERPrivate First Class · November 8, 1965
- MELVIN FRANK FORTSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
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.