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MICHAEL NICHOLAS MASUEN
Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army
April 20, 1950 – August 21, 1969
Service recordMichael Nicholas Masuen, of Spring Valley, California, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on August 21, 1969, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 19W, Line 88 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19W · Line 88
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Utility/Observation Helicopter Pilot (100B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- April 20, 1950
- Home of record
- Spring Valley, California (San Diego County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 21, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Long
- 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 August 21, 1969; four of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 99 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 19W, Line 88
- WILLIAM DAVIS MARTINPrivate First Class · August 21, 1969
- EUGENE LEWIS MILLERSpecialist Four · August 21, 1969
- WILLIAM MIRANDACorporal · August 21, 1969
- MAJOR BOONE MORGAN JRCorporal · August 21, 1969
Same unit, same day
- RUPERT A FUNDERBURK JRWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 19W, Line 85
- DANIEL PERRY HOLTREYSpecialist Five · Panel 19W, Line 86
From Spring Valley
- DAVID ANDREW DILLONSpecialist Four · July 20, 1966
- RICHARD WENDAL HOMUTHLieutenant · May 23, 1967
- DAVID RUSSELL JONESLance Corporal · February 9, 1968
- JOHN CHARLES SEAMAN JRPrivate First Class · March 18, 1968
- KELLY WAYNE WEITZELPrivate First Class · February 23, 1969
- RONALD GENE LAUDERDALEPrivate First Class · November 12, 1969
- JAMES DAVID ANELLACorporal · March 5, 1970
- NICHOLAS WHITTIER VROOMANSpecialist Four · May 24, 1970
- PETER MITCHELL LOPEZ JRSpecialist Four · February 25, 1971
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.