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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 McKinley H Harvell JR.

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MCKINLEY H HARVELL JR

Corporal · U.S. Army

May 11, 1949 – November 11, 1970

Service record

McKinley H Harvell JR, of Dinwiddie, Virginia, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on November 11, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 6W · Line 51

Position of Panel 6W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
May 11, 1949
Home of record
Dinwiddie, Virginia (Dinwiddie County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 11, 1970
Age
21
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Drowning

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What was happening

11 names on the Wall carry the date November 11, 1970; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In November 1970, 347 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 27 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 6W, Line 51

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.