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MICHAEL THOMAS MAHONEY
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
October 18, 1945 – January 29, 1968
Service recordMichael Thomas Mahoney, of Towanda, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on January 29, 1968, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 61
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- October 18, 1945
- Home of record
- Towanda, Pennsylvania (Bradford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 29, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date January 29, 1968. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 35E, Line 61
- GENE LAWRENCE KUVIKStaff Sergeant · January 29, 1968
- NARCISO LEOS JRPrivate First Class · January 29, 1968
- JIMMIE CHARLES MARRIONPrivate First Class · January 29, 1968
- JAMES DALE MILLSCaptain · January 29, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GARY LEE CRONEStaff Sergeant · Panel 35E, Line 58
- CHARLES NICHOLAS TREDINNICKSergeant First Class · Panel 35E, Line 63
- CHARLES EDWARD WHITESergeant Major · Panel 35E, Line 64
From Towanda
- JOHN GARTH TOWNERCorporal · December 26, 1965
- ALDON MACKAY ASHERMAN JRPetty Officer Third Class · May 29, 1966
- GEORGE B PEARSON IIIFirst Lieutenant · September 17, 1966
- LEO EARL SEYMOURSergeant First Class · July 3, 1967
- BRIAN STUART KRILLPrivate First Class · July 21, 1968
- ROBERT NORMAN NORRISSpecialist Four · December 19, 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.