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JOHN LEWIS MCDANIEL
Major · U.S. Air Force
July 8, 1933 – April 26, 1968
Service recordJohn Lewis McDaniel, of Gibsonville, North Carolina, served as a Major in the U.S. Air Force. He died on April 26, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 52E, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 52E · Line 22
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Major (MAJ)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- 772 TAC ALFT SQ TDY TO 834
- Born
- July 8, 1933
- Home of record
- Gibsonville, North Carolina (Alamance County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 26, 1968
- Age
- 34
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
69 names on the Wall carry the date April 26, 1968; 28 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 52E, Line 22
- JAMES J MCKINSTRY JRCaptain · April 26, 1968
- CALVIN IAN NESBITTPrivate First Class · April 26, 1968
- DANIEL JEROME OCONNORSergeant · April 26, 1968
- RICHARD JAMES OLSONPrivate First Class · April 26, 1968
From Gibsonville
- GARY DAVIS PRINCECorporal · November 29, 1968
- LAWRENCE BARBE COLEMAN JRPrivate First Class · August 13, 1971
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.