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MICKEY LYNN SWATSLEY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 1, 1948 – September 8, 1968
Service recordMickey Lynn Swatsley, of Mt Carmel, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 8, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 44W, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44W · Line 6
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- February 1, 1948
- Home of record
- Mt Carmel, Illinois (Wabash County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 8, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
35 names on the Wall carry the date September 8, 1968; three of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 43 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 44W, Line 6
- DONALD RAYFORD ROBINSONPrivate First Class · September 8, 1968
- TERRY AUSTIN RUTHFirst Lieutenant · September 8, 1968
- REX RUSSELL SAGEColonel · September 8, 1968
- BOBBY RECE SUMPTERPrivate First Class · September 8, 1968
Same unit, same day
- BRUCE CALVIN CHRISTIANSpecialist Four · Panel 44W, Line 1
From Mt Carmel
- RALPH HARRY BARLETT JRPrivate First Class · November 11, 1967
- TOMMY AUSTIN WIGGINSLance Corporal · February 6, 1968
- ROY M ALEXANDERPrivate First Class · March 20, 1968
- KEITH MASON PARRSergeant · October 26, 1969
- MICHAEL JAMES MCCLANESpecialist Four · December 9, 1969
- DANNY KEITH RAYBORNPrivate First Class · January 6, 1970
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.