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MICHAEL RAYE MCCORD
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 22, 1949 – December 13, 1967
Service recordMichael Raye McCord, of Carmi, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 13, 1967, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 88 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31E · Line 88
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
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- March 22, 1949
- Home of record
- Carmi, Illinois (White County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 13, 1967
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date December 13, 1967; four of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 31E, Line 88
- DOUGLAS RAY JOHNSONPrivate First Class · December 13, 1967
- VERNE LYLE JOHNSON JRLance Corporal · December 13, 1967
- GENE FRANCIS LEESpecialist Four · December 13, 1967
- LUIS MANUEL MARQUEZ-LOPEZSergeant First Class · December 13, 1967
Same unit, same day
- DONALD RAY BURGESSPrivate First Class · Panel 31E, Line 86
- PAUL GEORGE HAMILTON JRPrivate First Class · Panel 31E, Line 87
From Carmi
- ROBERT CROZIER BARNES JRSecond Lieutenant · May 30, 1968
- LEWIS WAYNE PAGEPrivate First Class · August 18, 1968
- EARL KAY ZIEGLERFirst Lieutenant · January 22, 1969
- BOBBY GENE BARBRESpecialist Four · May 8, 1969
- LARRY DEAN BOYERSpecialist Four · January 21, 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.