Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: F Troop, 2nd 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: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 28-Apr-1946
Hometown: Hookstown, Pennsylvania
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 13-Feb-1969
Start of tour: 15-Aug-1969
Incident date: 15-Dec-1969
Date of casualty: 15-Dec-1969
Age at death: 23
Cause of death: Hostile, Died. Grenade. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
Daniel Millard Dawson was killed while driver of a military vehicle on a combat operation when a hostile fore was encountered. / Driver on armored cavalry assault vehicle (ACAV) on reconnaissance mission. Engaged hostile force in firefight.
Five Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
PFC Ronald Charles Collins
CPL Farrish Combs
SP4 Daniel Millard Dawson
PFC James Patrick Nugent
1LT John Roche
Location of fatality: Phuoc Long, South Vietnam, XU 955 265
Place of interment: Mill Creek Hill Cemetery, Hookstown, Pennsylvania, USA
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