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MICHAEL FRANK SMITH
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
July 13, 1947 – May 18, 1967
Service recordMichael Frank Smith, of Fairfax, California, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 18, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20E · Line 36
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
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- BLT 1 3 MAR 9 MAB
- Born
- July 13, 1947
- Home of record
- Fairfax, California (Marin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 18, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
94 names on the Wall carry the date May 18, 1967; 38 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “BLT 1 3 MAR 9 MAB”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20E, Line 36
- MICHAEL SESSA JRPrivate First Class · May 18, 1967
- MELVIN LEROY SHIELDSPrivate First Class · May 18, 1967
- MARK SMITH JRSpecialist Four · May 18, 1967
- ALVIN RICHARD SPIDERPrivate First Class · May 18, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JOHN W MCCORMICK JREnsign · Panel 20E, Line 31
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.