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MICHEAL JOHN DRAKE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
June 13, 1948 – March 3, 1967
Service recordMicheal John Drake, of Sanford, Florida, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 3, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 9
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- June 13, 1948
- Home of record
- Sanford, Florida (Seminole County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 3, 1967
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
46 names on the Wall carry the date March 3, 1967; 21 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 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 45 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.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 16E, Line 9
- MICHAEL LEO EBALDPrivate First Class · March 3, 1967
- WALTER JOSEPH FITZPATRICKSergeant First Class · March 3, 1967
- JOHN DANIEL FORSHEYHospitalman · March 3, 1967
- ROBERT THOMAS FREEDPrivate First Class · March 3, 1967
Same unit, same day
- STEVEN JACK ADAMSPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 6
- CHARLES BYRON ALANDTPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 6
- CHARLES HERMAN BENNETTPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 7
- WELBORN A CALLAHAN JRFirst Lieutenant · Panel 16E, Line 7
- CLYDE JOSEPH CAIRESPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 8
- PAUL WILLIAM CURRANPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 8
- MICHAEL LEO EBALDPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 9
- MELVIN CLYDE GAINESStaff Sergeant · Panel 16E, Line 10
- EARL STANLEY GARRISONPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 10
- MOSES GREENSpecialist Four · Panel 16E, Line 10
- NORMAN A RENFROPrivate · Panel 16E, Line 12
- ANGEL PERFIR SAEZ-RAMIREZStaff Sergeant · Panel 16E, Line 13
- PETER JOHN SCHUTZSpecialist Four · Panel 16E, Line 13
- JAMES ARTHUR SKILESPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 13
- JOHN RAYMOND STALTERSergeant · Panel 16E, Line 14
- LAWRENCE STRACKPrivate · Panel 16E, Line 14
- SELVESTER JOE VASQUESPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 15
- HERBERT WILSON JRPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 15
From Sanford
- TERRY DENVER CORDELLCaptain · October 15, 1962
- EDWARD FRANK GOLDCommander · December 22, 1965
- CHARLES A GAINESSergeant · May 21, 1966
- SHELTON MORGANPrivate First Class · May 26, 1967
- CHRISTOPHER ANDREWSPrivate First Class · December 3, 1967
- PATRICK LINDSEY HALLPrivate First Class · January 11, 1968
- CHARLES EDWARD HALLSergeant First Class · January 31, 1968
- JAMES WOOD GRANTSpecialist Four · May 7, 1968
- JOSEPH RICHARD JONESPrivate First Class · July 5, 1968
- WILLIAM DALE STOVALLPrivate First Class · October 31, 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.