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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Michael Gean Rushing.

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MICHAEL GEAN RUSHING

Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

November 4, 1946 – May 29, 1967

Service record

Michael Gean Rushing, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 29, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21E · Line 15

Position of Panel 21E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Combat Engineer (1371)
Born
November 4, 1946
Home of record
Tuscaloosa, Alabama (Tuscaloosa County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 29, 1967
Age
20
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

44 names on the Wall carry the date May 29, 1967; nine of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 21E, Line 15

From Tuscaloosa

All 24 names from Tuscaloosa →

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.