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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of David Michael Midcap.

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DAVID MICHAEL MIDCAP

Private First Class · U.S. Army

June 29, 1946 – December 6, 1967

Service record

David Michael Midcap, of Ft Morgan, Colorado, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 6, 1967, in Binh Thuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 49 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31E · Line 49

Position of Panel 31E 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
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
199 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
June 29, 1946
Home of record
Ft Morgan, Colorado (Morgan County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 6, 1967
Age
21
Province
Binh Thuy
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

70 names on the Wall carry the date December 6, 1967; six of them were lost in Binh Thuy Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 42 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 31E, Line 49

Same unit, same day

From Ft Morgan

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.