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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 Anthony Pfeufer.

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MICHAEL ANTHONY PFEUFER

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

August 28, 1948 – November 19, 1969

Service record

Michael Anthony Pfeufer, of Dumont, New Jersey, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 19, 1969, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 16W, Line 96 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 16W · Line 96

Position of Panel 16W 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
HHC 4 BN 23 INF 25 INF DIV
Born
August 28, 1948
Home of record
Dumont, New Jersey (Bergen County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 19, 1969
Age
21
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Heart Related

Context · from the records

What was happening

14 names on the Wall carry the date November 19, 1969. In November 1969, 660 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 16W, Line 96

From Dumont

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.