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MICHAEL JEFFERSON TRUSTY
Private First Class · U.S. Army
February 21, 1949 – September 6, 1969
Service recordMichael Jefferson Trusty, of Taylors, South Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 6, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18W · Line 51
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- February 21, 1949
- Home of record
- Taylors, South Carolina (Greenville County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 6, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
35 names on the Wall carry the date September 6, 1969; two of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 31 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 18W, Line 51
- JAMES DOUGLAS CHAPPELLSpecialist Four · September 5, 1969
- NEAL ARTHUR SMITHSpecialist Four · September 6, 1969
- DENNIS ARTHUR SPENELLIHospitalman · September 6, 1969
- JERRY SYLVIAPrivate First Class · September 6, 1969
- GILBERT CRAIG TURNER JRStaff Sergeant · September 6, 1969
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS ANTHONY SALVATOREPrivate First Class · Panel 18W, Line 50
From Taylors
- LARRY EMERSON POTTERCorporal · July 16, 1966
- DAVID D DAVENPORT JRPrivate First Class · February 5, 1967
- JAMES LEE BROWNPlatoon Sergeant · December 19, 1967
- MARVIN WHITNER BOWENCorporal · January 18, 1968
- LEWIS ANTHONY DAVISSeaman Apprentice · March 17, 1971
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.