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MICHAEL GERALD HARTNETT
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 27, 1946 – April 27, 1967
Service recordMichael Gerald Hartnett, of Conway, Massachusetts, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 27, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 102 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 102
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- February 27, 1946
- Home of record
- Conway, Massachusetts (Franklin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 27, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date April 27, 1967; eight of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 73 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 102
- DAVID CENTENO GRIJALVALance Corporal · April 27, 1967
- RANDY LEIGH HEERDTPrivate First Class · April 27, 1967
- LARRY KEITH LEACHPrivate First Class · April 27, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JAMES EDWARD BOORMANSergeant · Panel 18E, Line 100
- JAMES DENNIS BRONAKOSKISpecialist Four · Panel 18E, Line 100
- WILLIAM BERNARD CRONINLieutenant Colonel · Panel 18E, Line 101
- ARTHUR DAVIES JRMajor · Panel 18E, Line 101
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.