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MICHAEL RAYMOND ISHMAN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 2, 1946 – January 12, 1967
Service recordMichael Raymond Ishman, of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 12, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14E · Line 15
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- June 2, 1946
- Home of record
- Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania (Jefferson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 12, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date January 12, 1967; 12 of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 48 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương Province while Operation Cedar Falls was under way. Operation Cedar Falls (8–26 January 1967) sent some 30,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops into the “Iron Triangle” northwest of Saigon to destroy Viet Cong base areas and tunnels. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 14E, Line 15
- CAREY WAYNE ELLENBERGERPrivate First Class · January 12, 1967
- GARRY DON FREEMANPrivate First Class · January 12, 1967
- THOMAS ARTHUR GERGPrivate First Class · January 12, 1967
- ANGUS N JACKSONSergeant · January 12, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JOHNNY LEE BRUTONPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 14
- KENNETH LEN SHUFFITTSpecialist Four · Panel 14E, Line 18
From Punxsutawney
- JOSEPH TORZOKSpecialist Four · June 8, 1966
- RICHARD LORRAINE KUNTZSpecialist Four · February 5, 1968
- LARRY EDWARD FRANTZPrivate First Class · August 29, 1968
- ROBERT PAUL PAPEAirman First Class · September 2, 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.