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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Michael Fredrick Scott.

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MICHAEL FREDRICK SCOTT

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

December 5, 1943 – February 9, 1967

Service record

Michael Fredrick Scott, of San Antonio, Texas, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 9, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 15E · Line 11

Position of Panel 15E 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. Army
Rank
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Field Artillery Unit Commander (1193)
Unit (as recorded)
11 ARMORED CAV
Born
December 5, 1943
Home of record
San Antonio, Texas (Bexar County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 9, 1967
Age
23
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

12 names on the Wall carry the date February 9, 1967; he was the only one lost in Tây Ninh Province that day. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 15E, Line 11

Same unit, same day

From San Antonio

All 287 names from San Antonio →

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.