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MICHAEL TOLLEY
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
June 6, 1948 – March 4, 1968
Service recordMichael Tolley, of Unicoi, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 4, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 43E, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43E · Line 1
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (1371)
- Born
- June 6, 1948
- Home of record
- Unicoi, Tennessee (Unicoi County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 4, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
75 names on the Wall carry the date March 4, 1968; 13 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Nam Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 43E, Line 1
- JAMES RICHARD TOMLINSONSpecialist Four · March 4, 1968
- JOSE ENRIQUE TORRESSpecialist Four · March 4, 1968
- EVERETT JOSE VALANDINGHAMSpecialist Five · March 4, 1968
- ANGEL RUDY VASQUEZPrivate First Class · March 4, 1968
From Unicoi
- DONALD RICHARD COOKChief Warrant Officer 2 · October 26, 1970
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.