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MICHAEL BOMBERGER KOONS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 14, 1947 – August 19, 1967
Service recordMichael Bomberger Koons, of Fredericksburg, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 19, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25E · Line 16
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- September 14, 1947
- Home of record
- Fredericksburg, Pennsylvania (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 19, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date August 19, 1967. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 23 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 25E, Line 16
- BAXTER HARRISON ELLISPrivate First Class · August 19, 1967
- THOMAS EDWARD IRWINSpecialist Five · August 19, 1967
- WALLACE MICHAEL JACKSONSpecialist Four · August 19, 1967
- RANDALL GORDON JACOBSpecialist Five · August 19, 1967
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT EDWARD VIGGIANOPrivate First Class · Panel 25E, Line 18
From Fredericksburg
- WILBUR LINWOOD KOHRPrivate First Class · January 2, 1967
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.