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M C PAGE
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
March 28, 1931 – September 16, 1969
Service recordM C Page, of Keltys, Texas, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 16, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 38. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 96 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18W · Line 96
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- March 28, 1931
- Home of record
- Keltys, Texas (Angelina County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 16, 1969
- Age
- 38
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date September 16, 1969; three of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 27 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 18W, Line 96
- JOHNNY RAY MCKENZIEPrivate · September 16, 1969
- LARRY GRAYDON MOOTHARTSergeant · September 16, 1969
- JERRY LEWIS OGRENStaff Sergeant · September 16, 1969
- WALTER STANLEY OLINSKY JRWarrant Officer 1 · September 16, 1969
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.