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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Thomas James Daniels.

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THOMAS JAMES DANIELS

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

August 15, 1946 – September 17, 1967

Service record

Thomas James Daniels, of Sacramento, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 17, 1967, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 82 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 26E · Line 82

Position of Panel 26E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Medical Specialist (91B)
Unit (as recorded)
C CO 2 BN 34 ARM 25 INF DIV
Born
August 15, 1946
Home of record
Sacramento, California (Sacramento County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 17, 1967
Age
21
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

29 names on the Wall carry the date September 17, 1967; four of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “C CO 2 BN 34 ARM 25 INF DIV”, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 26E, Line 82

Same unit, same day

From Sacramento

All 146 names from Sacramento →

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.