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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Peter Joseph Daniluck.

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PETER JOSEPH DANILUCK

First Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

July 29, 1919 – September 26, 1968

Service record

Peter Joseph Daniluck, of New York, New York, served as a First Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 26, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 49. His name is inscribed on Panel 42W, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 42W · Line 16

Position of Panel 42W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Marine Corps
Rank
First Sergeant (1STSGT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Born
July 29, 1919
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 26, 1968
Age
49
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

55 names on the Wall carry the date September 26, 1968; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 42W, Line 16

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.