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MICHAEL LEWIS BERRY
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
August 12, 1947 – March 23, 1969
Service recordMichael Lewis Berry, of Ashley, Indiana, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on March 23, 1969, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 17
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Ammunition Specialist (55B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- August 12, 1947
- Home of record
- Ashley, Indiana (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 23, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date March 23, 1969; three of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 17
- NORMAN ELMER BECKPrivate First Class · March 23, 1969
- STEVE EUGENE BYARSLance Corporal · March 23, 1969
- REX FILLMORE CHURCHStaff Sergeant · March 23, 1969
- EDDIE LEE EVENSONSpecialist Four · March 23, 1969
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM JOHN AHLUMCaptain · Panel 28W, Line 16
- JERRY LEE PETERSONSpecialist Four · Panel 28W, Line 21
- JOHNNY LEE SMITHSpecialist Four · Panel 28W, Line 21
From Ashley
- LYAL HANCIL ERWINCaptain · January 15, 1965
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.