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MICHAEL WAYNE CHANEY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 14, 1948 – November 11, 1968
Service recordMichael Wayne Chaney, of Terre Haute, Indiana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 11, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 47 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39W · Line 47
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
- Duty Soldier (57A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- March 14, 1948
- Home of record
- Terre Haute, Indiana (Vigo County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 11, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Heart Related
Context · from the records
What was happening
35 names on the Wall carry the date November 11, 1968; three of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 54 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 39W, Line 47
- RONALD EARL COLVINSPrivate First Class · November 11, 1968
- GEORGE W COONE JRSergeant First Class · November 11, 1968
- HOWARD KENNETH COOPERPrivate First Class · November 11, 1968
- JAMES HAMBRICK JRLance Corporal · November 11, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CHARLIE LEE LOGANStaff Sergeant · Panel 39W, Line 50
From Terre Haute
- EUGENE RUSSELL FOWLERCaptain · April 27, 1965
- PAUL LOUIS LEMAYSergeant · October 18, 1965
- HERMAN RICHARD MENEELYPrivate First Class · June 11, 1966
- ROBERT RAY MYLESStaff Sergeant · July 25, 1966
- JAMES WALTER SIMSStaff Sergeant · September 9, 1966
- PEARL WAYNE MYERSPrivate First Class · March 16, 1967
- QUENTIN RIPPETOE BEECHERChief Warrant Officer 3 · June 11, 1967
- JAMES EDWARD GISHCorporal · October 25, 1967
- STEPHEN PERRY JONESSergeant · October 27, 1967
- WILLIAM H RICHARDSON JRPrivate First Class · November 10, 1967
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.