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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 Miguel Antonio Bynoe.

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MIGUEL ANTONIO BYNOE

Private First Class · U.S. Army

October 3, 1948 – September 17, 1971

Service record

Miguel Antonio Bynoe, of Jamaica, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 17, 1971, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 2W · Line 19

Position of Panel 2W 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
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
196 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
October 3, 1948
Home of record
Jamaica, New York (Queens County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 17, 1971
Age
22
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

Three names on the Wall carry the date September 17, 1971; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In September 1971, 127 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 2W, Line 19

Same unit, same day

From Jamaica

All 49 names from Jamaica →

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.