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MELVIN TYRONE HUNTER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 16, 1947 – January 22, 1967
Service recordMelvin Tyrone Hunter, of Gulfport, Mississippi, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 22, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14E · Line 67
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- June 16, 1947
- Home of record
- Gulfport, Mississippi (Harrison County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 22, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
14 names on the Wall carry the date January 22, 1967. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 38 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 14E, Line 67
- ROWLAND EDWARD GIBSONSergeant · January 22, 1967
- RONALD LYNN PENDERGISTCorporal · January 22, 1967
- HAROLD W REYNOLDSStaff Sergeant · January 22, 1967
Same unit, same day
- RAYMOND PETER ALBIETZCorporal · Panel 14E, Line 65
From Gulfport
- HOWARD RUDOLPH CODYCaptain · November 24, 1963
- RICHARD TERRY SMITHSeaman · July 29, 1967
- CLARENCE EARL DRAKESCorporal · September 4, 1967
- SAMUEL M DAVISSpecialist Four · October 11, 1967
- ROBERT JAMES EDWARDSLance Corporal · October 15, 1967
- WILLIAM GILBERT WILKINSONChief Warrant Officer 4 · December 16, 1967
- JOE LOUIS JOHNSONPlatoon Sergeant · December 29, 1967
- TAYLOR W FOREMAN JRStaff Sergeant · February 16, 1968
- TERRY NEIL THOMPSONFireman · April 29, 1969
- LEO CARL CASEY JRSpecialist Four · January 8, 1970
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.