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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 Joseph Morehouse.

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MICHAEL JOSEPH MOREHOUSE

Sergeant · U.S. Army

February 15, 1949 – April 1, 1969

Service record

Michael Joseph Morehouse, of Covington, Kentucky, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 1, 1969, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 26W · Line 1

Position of Panel 26W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Born
February 15, 1949
Home of record
Covington, Kentucky

Casualty

Date of death
April 1, 1969
Age
20
Added to the Wall
2010

Context · from the records

What was happening

27 names on the Wall carry the date April 1, 1969. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 26W, Line 1

From Covington

All 29 names from Covington →

Source. This name was added to the Wall in 2010, after the 2008 Department of Defense casualty file used for most of this site was compiled. Panel, line and the details above are as listed for this name on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund’s Wall of Faces. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.