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DUANE HAROLD SNYDER
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
April 24, 1933 – February 27, 1968
Service recordDuane Harold Snyder, of Fremont, Ohio, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 27, 1968, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 41E, Line 55 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41E · Line 55
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)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- April 24, 1933
- Home of record
- Fremont, Ohio (Sandusky County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 27, 1968
- Age
- 34
- Province
- Khanh Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date February 27, 1968; he was the only one lost in Khanh Hoa Province that day. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
He died in Khanh Hoa Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 41E, Line 55
- JOSE ANTONIO HINOJOSAPrivate First Class · February 27, 1968
- GEORGE EDGAR SPECKPrivate First Class · February 27, 1968
- THEODORE ARTHUR STAMPFLIPrivate First Class · February 27, 1968
- CORNELIUS WILLIAM STRASSNERSpecialist Four · February 27, 1968
From Fremont
- GARY LEE GABELSergeant · February 2, 1968
- JAMES ROBERT BURKEPrivate First Class · May 2, 1968
- HARRY LYNNE HUMMELSergeant · June 1, 1968
- JEFFREY LEE BEARDPrivate First Class · October 5, 1968
- KENNARD ERROL SVANOEFirst Lieutenant · June 2, 1969
- ROBERT FLORES JRCorporal · October 10, 1969
- ROBERT OTTO EDERSpecialist Four · November 29, 1969
- RONALD EUGENE YOUNGPrivate First Class · February 24, 1970
- DARRELD EDWARD FISHERStaff Sergeant · April 26, 1970
- JOHN WILLIAM CONRADSpecialist Four · November 14, 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.