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MICHAEL WAYNE RAY
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
January 31, 1949 – May 12, 1970
Service recordMichael Wayne Ray, of Cabot, Arkansas, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on May 12, 1970, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 10W, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10W · Line 28
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Materiel Control And Accounting Specialist (76P)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- January 31, 1949
- Home of record
- Cabot, Arkansas (Lonoke County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 12, 1970
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
47 names on the Wall carry the date May 12, 1970; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 30 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 10W, Line 28
- ROBERT FRANCIS PREISS JRStaff Sergeant · May 12, 1970
- JAMES HILTON RAWSONSpecialist Four · May 12, 1970
- STEVEN RAY RENNERSpecialist Five · May 12, 1970
- KENNETH FAULKNER ROGERSFirst Lieutenant · May 12, 1970
From Cabot
- DON EDWARD DAVISCorporal · April 21, 1968
- HAROLD EUGENE MOSELEYCorporal · September 10, 1968
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.