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MICHAEL ROBERT KALE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 9, 1944 – May 6, 1968
Service recordMichael Robert Kale, of Milan, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 6, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 56E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 56E · Line 10
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- November 9, 1944
- Home of record
- Milan, Illinois (Rock Island County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 6, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
102 names on the Wall carry the date May 6, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 48 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 56E, Line 10
- WILLIAM ANTONE KEKAHUNASergeant · May 6, 1968
- LARRY LEE KELLYPrivate First Class · May 6, 1968
- WILLIAM B KIMBALL JRSecond Lieutenant · May 6, 1968
- EUGENE H KIRKLANDCorporal · May 6, 1968
Same unit, same day
- EDWARD W COLLINS IIISecond Lieutenant · Panel 56E, Line 3
From Milan
- PAUL PETER VAVROSKYSpecialist Four · March 6, 1969
- GEORGE PARNELL REEDCorporal · December 29, 1969
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.