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GILBERT ELLIS MCDANIEL
Hospitalman · U.S. Navy
January 5, 1948 – March 22, 1969
Service recordGilbert Ellis McDaniel, of Battiest, Oklahoma, served as a Hospitalman in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 22, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 12
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. Navy
- Rank
- Hospitalman (HN)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 3 BN 5 MAR 1 MARDIV
- Born
- January 5, 1948
- Home of record
- Battiest, Oklahoma (Mccurtain County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 22, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
46 names on the Wall carry the date March 22, 1969; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 12
- DANNY EUGENE HUBBSCorporal · March 22, 1969
- ROBERT PATRICK ILSLEYSpecialist Five · March 22, 1969
- EUGENE JOHN GEORGE KOCKSergeant · March 22, 1969
- ROBERT EUGENE MCAFERTYSpecialist Four · March 22, 1969
From Battiest
- ELWOOD BAKERLance Corporal · June 24, 1967
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.