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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Malcolm Fairchild Tassey.

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MALCOLM FAIRCHILD TASSEY

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

June 3, 1943 – July 2, 1967

Service record

Malcolm Fairchild Tassey, of Rutherford, New Jersey, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 2, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 22E, Line 116 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 22E · Line 116

Position of Panel 22E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
June 3, 1943
Home of record
Rutherford, New Jersey (Bergen County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 2, 1967
Age
24
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

127 names on the Wall carry the date July 2, 1967; 14 of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 39 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 22E, Line 116

Same unit, same day

From Rutherford

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.