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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Mickey Daniel Lang.

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MICKEY DANIEL LANG

Private First Class · U.S. Army

July 15, 1952 – May 19, 1971

Service record

Mickey Daniel Lang, of Anchorage, Alaska, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 19, 1971, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 3W · Line 41

Position of Panel 3W 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. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
Unit (as recorded)
11 ARMORED CAV
Born
July 15, 1952
Home of record
Anchorage, Alaska

Casualty

Date of death
May 19, 1971
Age
18
Province
Hua Nghia
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

Six names on the Wall carry the date May 19, 1971; two of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In May 1971, 202 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 3W, Line 41

Same unit, same day

From Anchorage

All 16 names from Anchorage →

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.