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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Michael Jonas Pynnonen.

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MICHAEL JONAS PYNNONEN

Corporal · U.S. Army

February 23, 1948 – March 29, 1970

Service record

Michael Jonas Pynnonen, of Lewiston, Michigan, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on March 29, 1970, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 12W, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 12W · Line 58

Position of Panel 12W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
11 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
February 23, 1948
Home of record
Lewiston, Michigan (Montmorency County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 29, 1970
Age
22
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Infectious Disease

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What was happening

24 names on the Wall carry the date March 29, 1970. In March 1970, 625 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 23 of its members that month.

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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.