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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 Harry Michael Trammell.

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HARRY MICHAEL TRAMMELL

Sergeant · U.S. Army

January 4, 1950 – May 22, 1969

Service record

Harry Michael Trammell, of Brunswick, Ohio, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 22, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 80 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 24W · Line 80

Position of Panel 24W 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
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
January 4, 1950
Home of record
Brunswick, Ohio (Medina County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 22, 1969
Age
19
Province
Dinh Tuong
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 22, 1969; three of them were lost in Định Tường 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 24W, Line 80

Same unit, same day

From Brunswick

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.