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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Michael Barry Judd.

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MICHAEL BARRY JUDD

Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy

August 22, 1945 – June 30, 1967

Service record

Michael Barry Judd, of Cleveland, Ohio, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on June 30, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 22E, Line 88 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 22E · Line 88

Position of Panel 22E 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. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Hospital Corpsman (HM)
Unit (as recorded)
A CO 3 RECON BN 3 MAR DIV
Born
August 22, 1945
Home of record
Cleveland, Ohio (Cuyahoga County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 30, 1967
Age
21
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Remains
Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record

Context · from the records

What was happening

21 names on the Wall carry the date June 30, 1967; five of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.

Also on Panel 22E, Line 88

From Cleveland

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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.