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HERMAN DERL DUNCAN
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
September 19, 1930 – July 18, 1968
Service recordHerman Derl Duncan, of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 18, 1968, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 51W, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 51W · Line 3
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- September 19, 1930
- Home of record
- Pine Bluff, Arkansas (Jefferson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 18, 1968
- Age
- 37
- Province
- Phuoc Tuy
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date July 18, 1968; he was the only one lost in Phuoc Tuy Province that day. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 51W, Line 3
- BILLY LEE COOKSpecialist Five · July 18, 1968
- LAWRENCE ARNOLD DAVISSergeant · July 18, 1968
- VICTOR LOUIS DODDYSpecialist Four · July 18, 1968
- MICHAEL ELKINTONCorporal · July 18, 1968
From Pine Bluff
- ROBERT DANEL OWEN JRSergeant First Class · June 24, 1966
- JESSE B STRIBLINGPrivate First Class · July 16, 1966
- JAMES EDWARD HILLPrivate First Class · May 2, 1967
- ROBERT ARTHUR SAUCIERAirman Second Class · July 1, 1967
- FREDRICK LAMAR THROWERTechnical Sergeant · September 4, 1967
- JOHN CHARLES HOUSECorporal · December 15, 1967
- WILLIE CHARLES TORRENCEPrivate First Class · February 10, 1968
- EDGAR LEE SIMMONSCorporal · April 3, 1968
- LARRY GENE CALHOUNSpecialist Four · May 18, 1968
- WILLIE LORENZO MORGAN JRSpecialist Four · June 2, 1968
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.