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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Michael Terence Mulvaney.

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MICHAEL TERENCE MULVANEY

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

January 6, 1943 – April 1, 1966

Service record

Michael Terence Mulvaney served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 1, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 72 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 6E · Line 72

Position of Panel 6E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Military Police (95B)
Unit (as recorded)
C CO 716 MP BN USARV
Born
January 6, 1943

Casualty

Date of death
April 1, 1966
Age
23
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

15 names on the Wall carry the date April 1, 1966. In April 1966, 406 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “C CO 716 MP BN USARV”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 6E, Line 72

Same unit, same day

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.