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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Micheal Allen Burns.

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MICHEAL ALLEN BURNS

Fireman · U.S. Navy

February 2, 1948 – April 30, 1968

Service record

Micheal Allen Burns, of Amarillo, Texas, served as a Fireman in the U.S. Navy. He died on April 30, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 53E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 53E · Line 10

Position of Panel 53E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Navy
Rank
Fireman (FN)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Fireman (FN)
Born
February 2, 1948
Home of record
Amarillo, Texas (Multiple County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 30, 1968
Age
20
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

87 names on the Wall carry the date April 30, 1968; 53 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 53E, Line 10

From Amarillo

All 52 names from Amarillo →

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.