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MICHAEL GUSTAVE RINDONE
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
December 16, 1947 – June 20, 1968
Service recordMichael Gustave Rindone, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 20, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 55W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 55W · Line 9
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- December 16, 1947
- Home of record
- Council Bluffs, Iowa (Pottawattamie County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 20, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date June 20, 1968; five of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 55W, Line 9
- ROSS MCCLLELAN PRESTONPrivate First Class · June 20, 1968
- GREGORY MARK ROSSSergeant · June 20, 1968
- CHARLES SEGAR JRSpecialist Four · June 20, 1968
- LAWRENCE ALLEN SHAFFERSergeant · June 20, 1968
From Council Bluffs
- MELVIN JOSEPH KILLIANColonel · September 30, 1965
- PHILLIP HARRY GREGOPrivate First Class · August 23, 1966
- LEONARD LLOYD MCQUINN JRPrivate First Class · September 5, 1966
- PAUL FRANK WIDTFELDT JRSpecialist Four · October 8, 1966
- DENNIS RAY JENSENPrivate First Class · March 5, 1967
- RAYMOND HENRY KNIGHTSpecialist Five · March 25, 1967
- CLIFFORD DALE NELSONMajor · July 25, 1967
- LOUIS NEWTON COOLEY JRLance Corporal · December 16, 1967
- WILLIAM ALLEN IVESPrivate First Class · March 24, 1968
- KENNETH CARL BAXTERLance Corporal · May 1, 1968
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.