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MICHAEL RAY STREET
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 1, 1951 – June 6, 1971
Service recordMichael Ray Street, of Rutherfordton, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 6, 1971, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 68 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3W · Line 68
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 Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Basic (13A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
- Born
- September 1, 1951
- Home of record
- Rutherfordton, North Carolina (Rutherford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 6, 1971
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
Five names on the Wall carry the date June 6, 1971; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In June 1971, 181 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 42 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 3W, Line 68
- HAROLD EDWARD BARNARDSergeant · June 6, 1971
- CARL WILHELM BORCHERSChief Warrant Officer 2 · June 6, 1971
- MARTIN EDWIN LOVINGChief Warrant Officer 2 · June 6, 1971
- BERNARD BARNESPrivate · June 7, 1971
From Rutherfordton
- HENRY HARRISON FORD JRPrivate First Class · December 12, 1966
- JOHN MITCHELL HICKSSpecialist Four · May 14, 1967
- JIMMY LEROY JOHNSON JRSergeant · January 26, 1968
- DOUGLAS GRANT BAILEYPrivate First Class · April 5, 1968
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.