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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Michael Lee Tostenson.

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MICHAEL LEE TOSTENSON

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

February 25, 1948 – February 4, 1968

Service record

Michael Lee Tostenson, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 4, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 37E, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 37E · Line 28

Position of Panel 37E 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
February 25, 1948
Home of record
Minneapolis, Minnesota (Hennepin County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 4, 1968
Age
19
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

68 names on the Wall carry the date February 4, 1968; five of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 37E, Line 28

From Minneapolis

All 193 names from Minneapolis →

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.