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MICHAEL ROBERT SPANGLER
Sergeant · U.S. Army
March 29, 1947 – January 13, 1969
Service recordMichael Robert Spangler, of Tarlton, Ohio, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 13, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 35W, Line 84 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35W · Line 84
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- March 29, 1947
- Home of record
- Tarlton, Ohio (Pickaway County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 13, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date January 13, 1969; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 114 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 35W, Line 84
- WILLIAM JOSEPH MACFARLANEPrivate First Class · January 13, 1969
- WILLIAM ALEXANDER MORRELLSergeant · January 13, 1969
- RUDOLPH PEARSONCorporal · January 13, 1969
- GLEN EVERETT ROUNTREEStaff Sergeant · January 13, 1969
Same unit, same day
- RUDOLPH PEARSONCorporal · Panel 35W, Line 84
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.