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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Michael Jeffery Waterloo.

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MICHAEL JEFFERY WATERLOO

Private First Class · U.S. Army

September 15, 1948 – June 24, 1969

Service record

Michael Jeffery Waterloo, of Chicago, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 24, 1969, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21W · Line 10

Position of Panel 21W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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)
25 INF DIV
Born
September 15, 1948
Home of record
Chicago, Illinois (Cook County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 24, 1969
Age
20
Province
Hua Nghia
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

31 names on the Wall carry the date June 24, 1969; he was the only one lost in Hua Nghia Province that day. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 122 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 21W, Line 10

From Chicago

All 955 names from Chicago →

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.