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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Arthur Gerald McNally.

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ARTHUR GERALD MCNALLY

Private First Class · U.S. Army

December 12, 1942 – October 17, 1966

Service record

Arthur Gerald McNally, of Albany, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 17, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 84 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 11E · Line 84

Position of Panel 11E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Field Artillery Basic (13A)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
December 12, 1942
Home of record
Albany, New York (Albany County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 17, 1966
Age
23
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

25 names on the Wall carry the date October 17, 1966. In October 1966, 516 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 11E, Line 84

Same unit, same day

From Albany

All 37 names from Albany →

Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.