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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Michael William Webb.

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MICHAEL WILLIAM WEBB

Private First Class · U.S. Army

December 8, 1947 – May 15, 1968

Service record

Michael William Webb, of Monmouth, Oregon, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 15, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 61E, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 61E · Line 4

Position of Panel 61E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Construction And Utilities Worker (51A)
Unit (as recorded)
HHC 815 ENG BN 937 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE
Born
December 8, 1947
Home of record
Monmouth, Oregon (Polk County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 15, 1968
Age
20
Province
Pleiku
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

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75 names on the Wall carry the date May 15, 1968; he was the only one lost in Pleiku Province that day. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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From Monmouth

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.