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A Navy corpsman treats a wounded Marine of H Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, in Huế, February 1968.
A Navy corpsman treats a wounded Marine of H Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, in Huế, February 1968. Photo: Sgt. William F. Dickman, USMC, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Russell Glen Daniels.

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RUSSELL GLEN DANIELS

Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy

September 23, 1948 – November 18, 1970

Service record

Russell Glen Daniels, of Phoenix, Arizona, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on November 18, 1970, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 66 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 6W · Line 66

Position of Panel 6W 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. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Hospital Corpsman (HM)
Born
September 23, 1948
Home of record
Phoenix, Arizona (Maricopa County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 18, 1970
Age
22
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

19 names on the Wall carry the date November 18, 1970; 15 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In November 1970, 347 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 6W, Line 66

From Phoenix

All 207 names from Phoenix →

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.