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LUNAS JONAS DANIELS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 30, 1946 – February 15, 1968
Service recordLunas Jonas Daniels, of Taylorsville, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 15, 1968, in Phong Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 44 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39E · Line 44
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
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- March 30, 1946
- Home of record
- Taylorsville, North Carolina (Alexander County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 15, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Phong Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date February 15, 1968; two of them were lost in Phong Dinh Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 164 of its members that month.
He died in Phong Dinh Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 39E, Line 44
- PETER COLICCHIOPrivate First Class · February 15, 1968
- KENNETH LEE CRYSELLance Corporal · February 15, 1968
- DONALD MILTON DALESpecialist Four · February 15, 1968
- WILLIAM MARCUS DANIELSLance Corporal · February 15, 1968
Same unit, same day
- STEVAN ROY SARGENTSpecialist Four · Panel 39E, Line 53
- BENJAMIN S UNDERHILLSpecialist Four · Panel 39E, Line 55
From Taylorsville
- BOBBIE MAXSEN AUTONSpecialist Four · May 23, 1967
- ROBERT BLAINE DANIELSLance Corporal · May 27, 1967
- ROBERT GERALD JOLLYPrivate First Class · November 6, 1968
- TERRY WAYNE DEALSeaman · October 1, 1972
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.