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MICHAEL H PENNELL
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 15, 1946 – November 21, 1966
Service recordMichael H Pennell, of Lenoir, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 21, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 104 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 12E · Line 104
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- March 15, 1946
- Home of record
- Lenoir, North Carolina (Caldwell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 21, 1966
- Age
- 20
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
50 names on the Wall carry the date November 21, 1966. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 38 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 12E, Line 104
- LARRY DUANE NAASZPrivate First Class · November 21, 1966
- HERBERT PEARSALL JRSergeant · November 21, 1966
- HARRY LEE POWERSPrivate First Class · November 21, 1966
- JOSEPH LEVERN RABONPrivate First Class · November 21, 1966
From Lenoir
- CANEY GREENSpecialist Four · August 15, 1966
- WALTER J SPAINHOUR JRFirst Lieutenant · September 15, 1966
- EDWARD EUGENE GREENEStaff Sergeant · January 2, 1967
- JOHN EDWARD FERGUSONPrivate First Class · June 8, 1967
- GENE CALVIN REIDSpecialist Four · February 28, 1968
- THEODORE R CONLEY JRLance Corporal · November 29, 1968
- RICHARD COLON WATSONPrivate First Class · August 2, 1969
- GEORGE FRANKLIN MCGEECorporal · September 11, 1969
- JAMES RICHARD BOWERS JRSergeant · March 7, 1970
- WILLIAM EUGENE AUSTINSergeant · July 31, 1970
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.