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MELVIN DAVID MORGAN JR
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
October 9, 1946 – January 2, 1969
Service recordMelvin David Morgan JR, of Pittsford, New York, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on January 2, 1969, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 35W, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35W · Line 20
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- October 9, 1946
- Home of record
- Pittsford, New York (Monroe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 2, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date January 2, 1969; seven of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 47 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 35W, Line 20
- ROBERT WAYNE JANTZWarrant Officer 1 · January 2, 1969
- ROSS ARNOLD JOHNSON JRPrivate · January 2, 1969
- LEE ELMER MOORE JRPrivate First Class · January 2, 1969
- JAMES CLIFFORD NICHOLSONSergeant First Class · January 2, 1969
Same unit, same day
- DEAN FRANKLIN BOLHOUSEWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 35W, Line 19
- ROBERT WAYNE JANTZWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 35W, Line 20
- CHARLES EDWARD SELLNERWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 35W, Line 22
From Pittsford
- JOHN CARL GRESENSLance Corporal · January 6, 1967
- ELTON LAWRENCE PERRINEColonel · May 22, 1967
- MICHAEL EUGENE LAWTONSergeant · December 1, 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.