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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Michael Allan Fuller.

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MICHAEL ALLAN FULLER

Private First Class · U.S. Army

January 12, 1951 – June 12, 1969

Service record

Michael Allan Fuller, of New York, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 12, 1969, in Vinh Binh Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 22W · Line 32

Position of Panel 22W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
January 12, 1951
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 12, 1969
Age
18
Province
Vinh Binh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

38 names on the Wall carry the date June 12, 1969; three of them were lost in Vinh Binh Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 70 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 22W, Line 32

Same unit, same day

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.