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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Michael David Estok.

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MICHAEL DAVID ESTOK

Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy

May 26, 1946 – May 13, 1967

Service record

Michael David Estok, of San Bernardino, California, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 13, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 19E, Line 105 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 19E · Line 105

Position of Panel 19E 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
Builder (BU)
Born
May 26, 1946
Home of record
San Bernardino, California (San Bernardino County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 13, 1967
Age
20
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

60 names on the Wall carry the date May 13, 1967; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 19E, Line 105

From San Bernardino

All 53 names from San Bernardino →

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.