Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: A Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11D – Armor Reconnaissance Specialist
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Presidential Unit Citation, Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 8-Jun-1947
Hometown: Dubuque, Iowa
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Start of tour: 20-Sep-1967
Incident date: 16-May-1968
Date of casualty: 16-May-1968
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Hostile, died of wounds. Grenade. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
Daniel Harold Chatfield died from wounds received while driver of military vehicle on a combat operation when engaged hostile force in firefight. He was admitted to the 24th Evacuation Hospital, Long Binh, 16 May 1968 at 1935 hours and placed on the very seriously injured (VSI) list 16 May 1968 at 1940 hours and later expired.
Location of fatality: Long Khanh, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Mount Calvary Cemetery, Dubuque, Iowa, USA
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