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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 Donald Henry Mikulecky.

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DONALD HENRY MIKULECKY

Sergeant · U.S. Army

May 14, 1948 – November 26, 1967

Service record

Donald Henry Mikulecky, of Fairview, Oklahoma, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 26, 1967, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 93 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 30E · Line 93

Position of Panel 30E 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Cannon Crewmember (13B)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
May 14, 1948
Home of record
Fairview, Oklahoma (Major County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 26, 1967
Age
19
Province
Kontum
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

41 names on the Wall carry the date November 26, 1967; six of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 142 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 30E, Line 93

Same unit, same day

From Fairview

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.