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MELVIN BOLTON
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 26, 1949 – May 8, 1969
Service recordMelvin Bolton, of Tignall, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 8, 1969, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25W · Line 20
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- March 26, 1949
- Home of record
- Tignall, Georgia (Wilkes County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 8, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date May 8, 1969; two of them were lost in Kien Hoa 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 25W, Line 20
- JIM ALBERT BARTONPrivate First Class · May 8, 1969
- DARREL GENE BITTNERSergeant · May 8, 1969
- CHARLES GEORGE BOLINGPrivate First Class · May 8, 1969
- ARTURO PELAJIOPrivate First Class · May 8, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ARTHUR MICHAEL DAYSpecialist Five · Panel 25W, Line 22
From Tignall
- MICHAEL ANTHONY SMITHLance Corporal · May 7, 1968
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.