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MICHAEL MONROE USSERY
Sergeant · U.S. Army
July 13, 1950 – May 9, 1970
Service recordMichael Monroe Ussery, of Brook Park, Ohio, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 9, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 10W, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10W · Line 8
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- July 13, 1950
- Home of record
- Brook Park, Ohio (Cuyahoga County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 9, 1970
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date May 9, 1970; three of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 170 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 10W, Line 8
- JOHN DAVID MCCLUSKEYWarrant Officer 1 · May 9, 1970
- EDDIE LEE NAILS JRSergeant · May 9, 1970
- RAYMOND LOUIS PARADISPrivate First Class · May 9, 1970
- KRIS MITCHELL PERDOMOSpecialist Four · May 9, 1970
Same unit, same day
- MICHAEL GREGORY JENSONStaff Sergeant · Panel 10W, Line 6
- ROY LEE RICHARDSONFirst Lieutenant · Panel 10W, Line 9
From Brook Park
- TRAVIS ONEAL POSSSergeant · November 15, 1965
- JACK RONALD LENNERSpecialist Four · May 4, 1967
- THEODORE FRANK FUSSPrivate First Class · August 2, 1967
- EDWARD MICHAEL HEISERSpecialist Four · June 28, 1968
- JOHN JAMES HARGREAVESPrivate First Class · January 6, 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.