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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Michael Kevin Maloney.

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MICHAEL KEVIN MALONEY

Captain · U.S. Army

March 20, 1945 – February 25, 1971

Service record

Michael Kevin Maloney, of Davenport, Iowa, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on February 25, 1971, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 4W · Line 4

Position of Panel 4W 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
Captain (CPT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Operations And Training Staff Officer (G3,a3,s3) (2162)
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
March 20, 1945
Home of record
Davenport, Iowa (Scott County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 25, 1971
Age
25
Province
Kien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

13 names on the Wall carry the date February 25, 1971; he was the only one lost in Kien Hoa Province that day. In February 1971, 387 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 4W, Line 4

From Davenport

All 28 names from Davenport →

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.