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DARNELL, HAROLD DAIL
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Casualty
Record
Name:
DARNELL, HAROLD DAIL
Rank / Branch:
SERGEANT, U. S. ARMY
Date of Birth:
1947-04-25
Country
of Loss:
SOUTH VIETNAM
Loss
Coordinates:
QUANG NGIA
Status:
NON-HOSTILE-OTHER AC
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground:
GROUND
Awards & Decorations:
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Veteran
Hagiography
HAROLD DAIL DARNELL, SERGEANT, U.S. ARMY, SWEETWATER, NOLAN COUNTY, TEXAS
AWARDS AND DECORATIONS
Bronze Star Medal, Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Vietnam Campaign Medal
BIOGRAPHY
Harold was born in Pampa, Gray County, Texas. He was the son of Zeta Willie Bagley Darnell and Wilbert Ralph Darnell. He attended schools in Stanton, Coahoma, DeLeon and Sweetwater. He last attended Sweetwater High School after his junior year and dropped out, married Alois Kay Kocks August 21,1964 in Sweetwater. He entered the Army in September 1964 and was home on Xmas leave from Fort Polk, Louisiana on December 27, 1964 when his wife was killed in a car accident six miles north of Sweetwater. She was buried in Snyder, Texas.
After the death of his wife, he completed training as radio tower installer/repairman at Fort Polk. He served a tour in Germany and a previous tour in Vietnam. He re-enlisted in the Army in September 1967 and married Sharon K. Correll of Sweetwater, December 29, 1968 in Sweetwater.
He began his second tour in Vietnam on February 15, 1969. He was assigned as a radio antenna installer/repairman with Headquarters and Service Battery, 4th Battalion, 42nd Artillery under the operational control of the 4th Infantry Division. He was killed on January 20, 1970 at the Chu Chi Base Camp as he was erecting a radio antenna. He was accidentally electrocuted. Harold was three weeks short of completing his year long tour in Vietnam and had been writing his family about his homecoming.
Garden of Memories Cemetery, Sweetwater, Texas He was buried with full military honors at the Garden of Memories Cemetery in Sweetwater, Texas. He was survived by his wife and his parents of Sweetwater, by his brothers Frankie of Aledo, Larry of the parent's home and W.R. Darnell, Jr. of Lampasas and two sisters, Barbara Gail Welch of Clyde, Texas and a sister, Billie Sue Darnell of the parents home.
VIRTUAL WALL
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