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MICHAEL DAVID ECKERFELD
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
March 19, 1949 – September 26, 1968
Service recordMichael David Eckerfeld, of Berea, Ohio, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on September 26, 1968, in Ba Xugen Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 42W, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42W · Line 17
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- March 19, 1949
- Home of record
- Berea, Ohio (Cuyahoga County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 26, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Ba Xugen
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Died of other causes
Context · from the records
What was happening
55 names on the Wall carry the date September 26, 1968; he was the only one lost in Ba Xugen Province that day. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 35 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 42W, Line 17
- ALFRED ANDREW FILIPPELLICorporal · September 26, 1968
- BARRY KEVIN FISKFirst Lieutenant · September 26, 1968
- DOUGLAS EUGENE GOSSAGESpecialist Four · September 26, 1968
- RONALD FRANK GREENSergeant · September 26, 1968
From Berea
- ALLAN RUSSELL FISCHBACHLance Corporal · September 6, 1965
- WILLIAM GLENN WADELance Corporal · March 21, 1966
- JOHN FRANKLIN TYRRELLPrivate First Class · February 14, 1968
- THOMAS JAMES SCULLENPrivate First Class · March 2, 1968
- DANIEL LOUIS PUCCICorporal · June 2, 1969
- ELMON C CAUDILL IIFirst Lieutenant · November 29, 1970
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.