Seaman Daniel Charles Case from Wichita, Kansas lost his life at the age of 24 on April 11, 1970.
Seaman Daniel Charles Case was born on July 12, 1945 and had less than 1 year in the U.S. Navy arriving in Vietnam on February 12, 1970 assigned to Strike Assault Boat 722 (STAB-722), Strike Assault Boat Squadron 20 (STABRON-20), Task Force 116 (TF-116), U.S. Naval Forces Vietnam.
A STAB was a Strike Assault Boat, a small craft designed for the purpose of inserting, supporting, and extracting small units. The boats traded armor and fire power for shallow draft and speed. The STABs went to work in Operation Barrier Reef which was the 43-mile east-west Grand Canal, from the northern Mekong River village of An Long, on the west, eastward to Tuyen Nhon on the Yam Co Tay (river) for eleven months in 1970.
On the night of March 20, 1970, Seaman Daniel C. Case was struck by a bullet in his lower abdomen while his Strike Assault Boat (STAB) was in a waterborne guard post (WBGP) on the Grand Canal. A dustoff (medical evacuation by helicopter) brought him to the Third Surgical Hospital in Binh Thuy and he was subsequently transferred to a hospital in Saigon where he died on April 11, 1970 from the wound received. An investigation later determined the source of the gunshot that stuck Seaman Case was friendly small arms fire.
Seaman Daniel Charles Case is honored on the Vietnam Memorial at Panel 12W, Line 123.
Contributor: Bruce Barney (48607679) • [email protected]
Seaman Daniel Charles Case was born on July 12, 1945 and had less than 1 year in the U.S. Navy arriving in Vietnam on February 12, 1970 assigned to Strike Assault Boat 722 (STAB-722), Strike Assault Boat Squadron 20 (STABRON-20), Task Force 116 (TF-116), U.S. Naval Forces Vietnam.
A STAB was a Strike Assault Boat, a small craft designed for the purpose of inserting, supporting, and extracting small units. The boats traded armor and fire power for shallow draft and speed. The STABs went to work in Operation Barrier Reef which was the 43-mile east-west Grand Canal, from the northern Mekong River village of An Long, on the west, eastward to Tuyen Nhon on the Yam Co Tay (river) for eleven months in 1970.
On the night of March 20, 1970, Seaman Daniel C. Case was struck by a bullet in his lower abdomen while his Strike Assault Boat (STAB) was in a waterborne guard post (WBGP) on the Grand Canal. A dustoff (medical evacuation by helicopter) brought him to the Third Surgical Hospital in Binh Thuy and he was subsequently transferred to a hospital in Saigon where he died on April 11, 1970 from the wound received. An investigation later determined the source of the gunshot that stuck Seaman Case was friendly small arms fire.
Seaman Daniel Charles Case is honored on the Vietnam Memorial at Panel 12W, Line 123.
Contributor: Bruce Barney (48607679) • [email protected]
Seaman Daniel Charles Case from Wichita, Kansas lost his life at the age of 24 on April 11, 1970.
Seaman Daniel Charles Case was born on July 12, 1945 and had less than 1 year in the U.S. Navy arriving in Vietnam on February 12, 1970 assigned to Strike Assault Boat 722 (STAB-722), Strike Assault Boat Squadron 20 (STABRON-20), Task Force 116 (TF-116), U.S. Naval Forces Vietnam.
A STAB was a Strike Assault Boat, a small craft designed for the purpose of inserting, supporting, and extracting small units. The boats traded armor and fire power for shallow draft and speed. The STABs went to work in Operation Barrier Reef which was the 43-mile east-west Grand Canal, from the northern Mekong River village of An Long, on the west, eastward to Tuyen Nhon on the Yam Co Tay (river) for eleven months in 1970.
On the night of March 20, 1970, Seaman Daniel C. Case was struck by a bullet in his lower abdomen while his Strike Assault Boat (STAB) was in a waterborne guard post (WBGP) on the Grand Canal. A dustoff (medical evacuation by helicopter) brought him to the Third Surgical Hospital in Binh Thuy and he was subsequently transferred to a hospital in Saigon where he died on April 11, 1970 from the wound received. An investigation later determined the source of the gunshot that stuck Seaman Case was friendly small arms fire.
Seaman Daniel Charles Case is honored on the Vietnam Memorial at Panel 12W, Line 123.
Contributor: Bruce Barney (48607679) • [email protected]
Seaman Daniel Charles Case was born on July 12, 1945 and had less than 1 year in the U.S. Navy arriving in Vietnam on February 12, 1970 assigned to Strike Assault Boat 722 (STAB-722), Strike Assault Boat Squadron 20 (STABRON-20), Task Force 116 (TF-116), U.S. Naval Forces Vietnam.
A STAB was a Strike Assault Boat, a small craft designed for the purpose of inserting, supporting, and extracting small units. The boats traded armor and fire power for shallow draft and speed. The STABs went to work in Operation Barrier Reef which was the 43-mile east-west Grand Canal, from the northern Mekong River village of An Long, on the west, eastward to Tuyen Nhon on the Yam Co Tay (river) for eleven months in 1970.
On the night of March 20, 1970, Seaman Daniel C. Case was struck by a bullet in his lower abdomen while his Strike Assault Boat (STAB) was in a waterborne guard post (WBGP) on the Grand Canal. A dustoff (medical evacuation by helicopter) brought him to the Third Surgical Hospital in Binh Thuy and he was subsequently transferred to a hospital in Saigon where he died on April 11, 1970 from the wound received. An investigation later determined the source of the gunshot that stuck Seaman Case was friendly small arms fire.
Seaman Daniel Charles Case is honored on the Vietnam Memorial at Panel 12W, Line 123.
Contributor: Bruce Barney (48607679) • [email protected]
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