- SURNAME
Daniel
- FORENAME
Robert Guy (Bob)
- UNIT
5 SF Group (Company B,Det B-20) (2 Mike Force)
- RANK
Master Sergeant
- NUMBER
14454709
- DATE OF DEATH
16th March 1969
- AGE
33
- GRAVESITE
Lafayette Memorial Park,Fayetteville,Cumberland County,North Carolina Lake View 104
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from Bridgeport,Alabama
born 21.3.1935 Bridgeport,Alabama
son of Arthur and Mildred S. Daniel,Route 1,Bridgeport,Alabama
husband of Carolyn F. Daniel,1424 Berrydale Drive,Fayetteville,North Carolina
16 years service
10 SF Group (Company A) 1966
award D.S.C. (posthumous),Bronze Star
not WIA 3.3.1969 as in some accounts
WIA 1k south of Ben Het,Kontum Province,South Vietnam
DOW same day 71st Evacuation Hospital,Pleiku,South Vietnam
Vietnam Veterans Memorial,Washington,D.C. Panel 29W Line 52
DATE OF DEATH:
16-Mar-1969AWARD:
https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?threads/daniel-robert-g.41209/CITATION:
Distinguished Service Cross : The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918 (amended by act of July 25, 1963), takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross (Posthumously) to Master Sergeant Robert G. Daniel (ASN: RA-14454709), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations involving conflict with an armed hostile force in the Republic of Vietnam, while serving with Detachment B-20, Company B, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), 1st Special Forces. Master Sergeant Daniel distinguished himself by exceptionally valorous actions on 16 March 1969 in the vicinity of Ben Het Special Forces Camp as operations sergeant of a mobile strike force company during an attempt to capture a hill held by a heavily armed, well-entrenched enemy force. While exposing himself to intense hostile automatic weapons and machine gun fire, Sergeant Daniel relayed valuable information to the battalion headquarters, called in gun ship strikes and secured a landing zone for resupply. He then led an assault to secure a portion of the bunker complex, personally killing an enemy soldier. Shortly afterwards his company commander was killed and he took charge of the unit, leading it through the communists' fusillade until heavy enemy mortar fire threatened to pin his men down. Realizing that his company could be annihilated if the attack stalled because the enemy covered all avenues of escape, Sergeant Daniel single-handedly assaulted a bunker to the front. Although wounded by enemy grenades, he continued to advance. As he hurled grenades into the fortification, killing six communists, he was mortally wounded by small arms fire from another bunker. His men were inspired by his courage and succeeded in overrunning the remaining positions. Master Sergeant Daniel's extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty, at the cost of his life, were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit, and the United States Army.
WEB LINKS:
https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/4876
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