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MICHAEL DAVID HALE
Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
November 30, 1947 – August 18, 1968
Service recordMichael David Hale, of Lebanon, Indiana, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 18, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 48W, Line 42 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48W · Line 42
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- November 30, 1947
- Home of record
- Lebanon, Indiana (Boone County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 18, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
76 names on the Wall carry the date August 18, 1968; 16 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 48W, Line 42
- MICHAEL DUANE HAHNPrivate First Class · August 18, 1968
- HARRY DAVID HAMMPrivate First Class · August 18, 1968
- LLOYD HARMSPrivate First Class · August 18, 1968
- JAMES RALPH HEETERPrivate First Class · August 18, 1968
- MICHAEL CHARLES POLISKISpecialist Four · August 18, 1968
From Lebanon
- ROBERT LEE REYNOLDS JRPrivate First Class · June 22, 1966
- DAVID R FISHERSpecialist Five · April 10, 1967
- ROBERT EUGENE VEACHLance Corporal · June 19, 1968
- DENNIS WAYNE HEFFNERPrivate First Class · August 16, 1968
- RICHARD CRAIG STEVENSSpecialist Four · November 23, 1968
- STANLEY MELVIN CLINGLERPrivate First Class · March 26, 1969
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.