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MICHAEL WILLIAM TWIGG
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 4, 1946 – March 25, 1967
Service recordMichael William Twigg, of Meyersdale, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 25, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 47 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 47
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- August 4, 1946
- Home of record
- Meyersdale, Pennsylvania (Somerset County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 25, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date March 25, 1967; 11 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 145 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 47
- DUDLEY RANDOLPH PATTYSpecialist Four · March 25, 1967
- CHESTER RAYMOND PAVEYGunnery Sergeant · March 25, 1967
- DONALD RAY SANDERSPrivate First Class · March 25, 1967
- WARREN DEMAREST VOUGHT JRCorporal · March 25, 1967
Same unit, same day
- RAYMOND HENRY KNIGHTSpecialist Five · Panel 17E, Line 44
- LOYD LINDAL MCBROOMSergeant · Panel 17E, Line 46
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.