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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Raymond Louis Daniels.

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RAYMOND LOUIS DANIELS

Sergeant · U.S. Army

October 20, 1945 – August 14, 1968

Service record

Raymond Louis Daniels, of Starks, Louisiana, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 14, 1968, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 48W, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 48W · Line 10

Position of Panel 48W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
October 20, 1945
Home of record
Starks, Louisiana

Casualty

Date of death
August 14, 1968
Age
22
Province
Kontum
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

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What was happening

31 names on the Wall carry the date August 14, 1968; 15 of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 108 of its members that month.

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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.