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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Michael Daniel Deeson.

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MICHAEL DANIEL DEESON

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

December 13, 1944 – November 26, 1967

Service record

Michael Daniel Deeson, of Miami, Florida, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 26, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 89 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 30E · Line 89

Position of Panel 30E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
December 13, 1944
Home of record
Miami, Florida (Dade County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 26, 1967
Age
22
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

41 names on the Wall carry the date November 26, 1967; 14 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 30E, Line 89

From Miami

All 179 names from Miami →

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.