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JOSEPH DANIEL BAILEY
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
December 10, 1937 – October 20, 1965
Service recordJoseph Daniel Bailey, of Ft Campbell, Kentucky, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 20, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 127 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2E · Line 127
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
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- December 10, 1937
- Home of record
- Ft Campbell, Kentucky (Christian County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 20, 1965
- Age
- 27
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
Seven names on the Wall carry the date October 20, 1965. In October 1965, 236 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 2E, Line 127
- DON GLENN KNOWLTONWarrant Officer 1 · October 20, 1965
- OWEN THOMAS LAVERYPrivate First Class · October 20, 1965
- RONALD WAYNE MACKLINWarrant Officer 1 · October 20, 1965
- WESLEY MCDONIALSpecialist Five · October 20, 1965
From Ft Campbell
- ARLEN CLIFTON TUTTLEStaff Sergeant · November 5, 1965
- RENE CERDA LOPEZSergeant · June 12, 1966
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.