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CYRIL MITCHELL JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 16, 1947 – September 11, 1968
Service recordCyril Mitchell JR, of Chelsea, Massachusetts, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 11, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 44W, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44W · Line 27
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 Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- August 16, 1947
- Home of record
- Chelsea, Massachusetts (Suffolk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 11, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
63 names on the Wall carry the date September 11, 1968; three of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 9 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 44W, Line 27
- LARRY LEE LISKOWSergeant · September 11, 1968
- ARMANDO LOPEZPrivate First Class · September 11, 1968
- LONNIE EUGENE LUNDYSergeant · September 11, 1968
- HAROLD JOSEPH MATHEWS JRPrivate First Class · September 11, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD NICHOLAS KLOOSPrivate First Class · Panel 44W, Line 26
- LARRY LEE LISKOWSergeant · Panel 44W, Line 27
From Chelsea
- SHELDON ROBERT COHENPrivate First Class · May 29, 1966
- MICHAEL THOMAS FITZPATRICKPrivate First Class · July 10, 1966
- FRANK MICHAEL SOKOLOWSKIPrivate First Class · October 7, 1966
- EVERETT ALBERT ALLENSeaman · July 29, 1967
- EDWARD JOHN ROSSERPrivate First Class · August 16, 1967
- JOHN EDWARD MADIGAN JRPrivate First Class · October 7, 1967
- SALVATORE AGRI JRPrivate First Class · April 9, 1968
- BRUCE JAMES KENNEDYPrivate First Class · November 14, 1968
- WILLIAM F THOMPSON JRSpecialist Four · March 24, 1971
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.