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ARTHUR MICHAEL DAY
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
July 18, 1948 – May 8, 1969
Service recordArthur Michael Day, of Levittown, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on May 8, 1969, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25W · Line 22
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- July 18, 1948
- Home of record
- Levittown, Pennsylvania (Bucks County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 8, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date May 8, 1969; two of them were lost in Kien Hoa Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 25W, Line 22
- ALBERT COBB JRSpecialist Four · May 8, 1969
- EDWIN RUSSELL DANEHARTLance Corporal · May 8, 1969
- FRANK ELOY GARLEYPrivate First Class · May 8, 1969
- WILBUR LEON GREENStaff Sergeant · May 8, 1969
Same unit, same day
- MELVIN BOLTONPrivate First Class · Panel 25W, Line 20
From Levittown
- JOSEPH PAUL YATSKO JRFirst Lieutenant · December 18, 1965
- JOHN WILLIAM THOMASSpecialist Four · January 10, 1966
- ALAN ROBERT SCHULTZLance Corporal · August 11, 1967
- PATRICK ROBERT ROYPrivate First Class · December 16, 1967
- THEODORE K KALEIKINI JRSergeant · January 18, 1968
- DENNIS THOMAS CUNNANEPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
- JAMES WALKER GUESTPrivate First Class · February 20, 1968
- STEVEN MICHAEL BEZENSKISpecialist Five · March 26, 1968
- STANLEY R STELLMACH JRSergeant · April 14, 1968
- MICHAEL FRANCIS DEENY IIIPrivate First Class · May 21, 1968
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.