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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Michael Raymond Tucker.

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MICHAEL RAYMOND TUCKER

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

June 13, 1946 – May 12, 1969

Service record

Michael Raymond Tucker, of Detroit, Michigan, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 12, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 89 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 25W · Line 89

Position of Panel 25W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
198 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
June 13, 1946
Home of record
Detroit, Michigan (Wayne County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 12, 1969
Age
22
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

170 names on the Wall carry the date May 12, 1969; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 75 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 25W, Line 89

Same unit, same day

From Detroit

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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.