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MICHAEL DENNIS HAVEL
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
September 14, 1946 – June 26, 1969
Service recordMichael Dennis Havel, of Reading, Massachusetts, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on June 26, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21W · Line 18
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- September 14, 1946
- Home of record
- Reading, Massachusetts (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 26, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date June 26, 1969; he was the only one lost in Tây Ninh Province that day. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 108 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 21W, Line 18
- JESSIE JEROME GARRARDCorporal · June 26, 1969
- ROBERT CLYDE GONTEROLance Corporal · June 26, 1969
- LUTHER ANDERSON HINTONSpecialist Four · June 26, 1969
- ANTHONY JOHN MARINELLISpecialist Four · June 26, 1969
From Reading
- PETER MALCOLM BREDBURYPrivate First Class · December 3, 1965
- ROBERT JAMES CROCELance Corporal · July 15, 1966
- JOHN WILLIAM HANSCOMPrivate First Class · March 2, 1967
- BRUCE CARLTON PARMELEEPrivate First Class · April 21, 1967
- ROBERT ALAN HOLTCaptain · September 19, 1968
- EDWARD ALLEN PUTNEYStaff Sergeant · May 10, 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.