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MICHAEL JOSEPH MIGUEL
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
December 7, 1943 – April 11, 1967
Service recordMichael Joseph Miguel, of Lemoore, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 11, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 16
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 7, 1943
- Home of record
- Lemoore, California (Kings County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 11, 1967
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date April 11, 1967; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 16
- WILFREDO MERCADO-SANTOSPrivate First Class · April 11, 1967
- OLIVER WENDELL MYERSPrivate First Class · April 11, 1967
- JAMES DENNIS PIPERPrivate First Class · April 11, 1967
- JOHN J RABIDEAUPrivate First Class · April 11, 1967
From Lemoore
- DANNY DAVID RHOADSSpecialist Four · March 12, 1967
- JAMES PATRICK BARRIOSSpecialist Four · January 12, 1969
- GARY LEE HOBBSPrivate First Class · January 27, 1970
- RICHARD JOHN COWELLCaptain · March 10, 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.