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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 Mack Daniel Simmons III.

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MACK DANIEL SIMMONS III

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

May 14, 1946 – May 22, 1967

Service record

Mack Daniel Simmons III, of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 22, 1967, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 87 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 20E · Line 87

Position of Panel 20E 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
May 14, 1946
Home of record
Rocky Mount, North Carolina (Edgecombe County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 22, 1967
Age
21
Province
Pleiku
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

39 names on the Wall carry the date May 22, 1967; 12 of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 117 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 20E, Line 87

Same unit, same day

From Rocky Mount

All 16 names from Rocky Mount →

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.