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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of William Danny Morrow.

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WILLIAM DANNY MORROW

Private First Class · U.S. Army

July 12, 1948 – May 22, 1968

Service record

William Danny Morrow, of Farner, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 22, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 65E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 65E · Line 13

Position of Panel 65E 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. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
July 12, 1948
Home of record
Farner, Tennessee (Polk County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 22, 1968
Age
19
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

73 names on the Wall carry the date May 22, 1968; 28 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 160 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 65E, Line 13

Same unit, same day

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.