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LARRY DEAN DANIELS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 28, 1946 – May 4, 1968
Service recordLarry Dean Daniels, of Ash, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 4, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 54E, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 54E · Line 32
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- January 28, 1946
- Home of record
- Ash, North Carolina (Brunswick County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 4, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
58 names on the Wall carry the date May 4, 1968; he was the only one lost in Tây Ninh Province that day. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 54E, Line 32
- DARRELL WAYNE COTTRELLLance Corporal · May 4, 1968
- KENNETH MICHAEL CRYANSpecialist Five · May 4, 1968
- ROBERT WOODROW DAMERONPrivate First Class · May 4, 1968
- JOHN MELVIN DURHAMStaff Sergeant · May 4, 1968
- JOHN EARNEST SWANSON JRCorporal · May 4, 1968
From Ash
- RONNIE RUDOLPH WHITECorporal · March 21, 1969
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.