Daniel William Daley

Private First Class
A CO, 1ST BN, 502ND INF RGT, 101 ABN DIV
Army of the United States
19 October 1947 - 01 May 1968
Elizabeth, NJ
Panel 53E Line 029

101 ABN DIV 502ND INF RGT
Combat Infantry

Purple Heart, National Defense, Vietnam Service, Vietnam Campaign

Airborne!
Daniel W Daley

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REMEMBERED ACROSS THE YEARS

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The classic cordon operation of the Vietnam war began on April 28, 1968, around the village of Phuoc Yen. The battle began with units from the 2nd Bde, 101st Airborne, trapping the 8th Bn, 90th NVA Regiment, in the "stocking" area of the Song Bo River two miles northwest of Hue. For four days, companies from three 2nd Brigade battalions, together with local Popular Forces (PF's) and a company from the 1st ARVN Division, lay siege to the village complex that intelligence sources said was harboring an NVA battalion.

Although the Allied forces were supported by batteries of the 21st Artillery, helicopter gunships, and Air Force fighter-bombers, defeat of the NVA battalion rested with the infantrymen. On the morning of the fifth day, with 419 NVA soldiers known dead, the remaining 107 surrendered, the first North Vietnamese Army unit to surrender en masse to an American unit in the history of the war.

Alpha Company, 2nd of the 502st Infantry, lost seven men in the battle for Phuoc Yen. PFC Dan Daley was one of them.



The point-of-contact for this memorial is
his brother,
Tom Daley
tom.daley@ncr.com 
02 Dec 2002



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Jim Schueckler, former CW2, US Army
Ken Davis, Commander, United States Navy (Ret)
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