Daniel E. Wark Collection (1378) Finding Aid
Collection Item Number: 13780000000
- Collection
- Daniel E. Wark Collection
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- Finding Aid
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- Language(s)
- English
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Creation: 19 July 2004
Scope and Contents
Medals, Badges, Ribbons, Certificates, Military Administrative Documents, Western Union Telegrams, a printed photograph, and a Newspaper clipping document Daniel E. Wark's tour of duty with the U.S. Army in Vietnam with Company A, 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, and his subsequent death while on patrol on August 21, 1968.Biographical / Historical
Daniel E. Wark was born on January 2, 1947 in Pasadena, California. He graduated from Corona del Mar High School in Newport Beach, California in 1965 and then moved to Honolulu to attend the University of Hawaii. Wark joined the U.S. Army in 1967 and was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. He began his tour of duty in Vietnam in May 1968 and was killed on August 21, 1968 while on patrol with Company A, 2-506th Infantry.- 14
- Museum Objects
1378museum1288: Purple Heart Medal and Ribbon bar
1378museum1289: Republic of Vietnam Military Merit Medal
1378museum1290: Republic of Vietnam Service Medal and Ribbon bar
1378museum1291: Vietnam Campaign Ribbon bar
1378museum1292: National Defense Service Medal and Ribbon bar
1378museum1293: National Defense Service Medal
1378museum1294: Good Conduct Medal Ribbon and Ribbon bar (missing medal)
1378museum1295: Combat Infantryman Badge
1378museum1296: Marksman Badge with Rifle Bar
1378museum1297: Sharpshooter Badge with Automatic Rifle Bar
1378museum1298: Expert Badge with machine gun bar
1378museum1299 and 1378museum1300: qualified parachutist badge (2)
1378museum1301
Presentation box for U.S. Army Purple Heart
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Letter from Major General Kenneth Wickham to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wark regarding the citations that their son Daniel E. Wark had been awarded (15 November 1968)
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Newspaper article listing the 16 Southern California servicemen killed in action (undated)
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Department of the Army form DA 52-2, Report of Casualty for Corporal Daniel Edward Wark (6 September 1968) (12 copies)
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Western Union Telegram addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wark, expressing regret that their son PFC Daniel Wark has been missing in action since 21 August 1968 (2 pages) (26 August 1968)
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Western Union Telegram addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wark, from Major General Wickham, expressing regret that their son, PFC Daniel E. Wark died in Vietnam on 21 August 1968 (undated) (2 pages)
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Western Union Telegram addressed to Frank Wark regarding return of son's body, CPL Daniel Wark to the United States for burial (1 August 1968) (3 pages)
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Western Union Telegram addressed to Frank Wark regarding the deliver of their son's body, CPL Daniel Wark, to Pacific View Memorial Park (4 September 1968)
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Pacific View Memorial Park for the cemetery property and services as selected for Daniel Edward Wark (11 September 1968)
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Form DD 1375 Request for Payment of Funeral and/or Interment Expenses for CPL Daniel E. Wark (9 September 1968)
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Copy of Public Law 680-77th Congress (as amended by PL 129-83D Congress) To provide for the posthumous appointment to commissioned or noncommissioned grade of certain enlisted men and the posthumous promotion of certain commissioned officers and enlisted men
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Certificate for posthumously promoting Daniel E. Wark to Corporal (E-4) in the United States Army (11 September 1968)
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Certificate, Honorable Service, presented to the family of Corporal Daniel Wark (21 August 1968)
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Certificate, Purple Heart, presented to family of Corporal Danel E. Wark for wounds resulting in his death on 21 August 1968 (15 November 1968) (certificate holder placed in oversized box)
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Envelope from Headquarters U.S. Army Military Mail Terminal, San Francisco
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Envelope from the commanding Officer 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division addressed to Mr. and Mrs Frank Wark
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United States of America War Office Purple Heart certificate holder
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Printed Photograph of Daniel E. Wark
- Perma Link
- https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=13780000000
- Citation
- Daniel E. Wark Collection (1378) Finding Aid, Daniel E. Wark Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=13780000000, Accessed 06 May 2026.
- Pub Credit Line
- 13780000000, Daniel E. Wark Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University
- Added: 18 Jul 2004 [Updated: 06 Apr 2020]
Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive
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