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MURPHY PLEASANT JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 11, 1948 – January 2, 1969
Service recordMurphy Pleasant JR, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 2, 1969, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 35W, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35W · Line 21
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Pioneer (12A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- January 11, 1948
- Home of record
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Milwaukee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 2, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date January 2, 1969; seven of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 84 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 35W, Line 21
- WILLIAM JOHN HAYESPrivate First Class · January 2, 1969
- ROBERT JOHN MORRISSpecialist Four · January 2, 1969
- MICHAEL PAGALINGPrivate First Class · January 2, 1969
- JAMES ARTHUR SCARBOROUGHCorporal · January 2, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ARTHUR FRANCIS BARTLETTSergeant · Panel 35W, Line 18
- WILLEY EDGAR WILLIAMS JRSpecialist Four · Panel 35W, Line 22
From Milwaukee
- TOM JOSEPH CRESSLieutenant · January 6, 1961
- ROBERT BURGERTSergeant · February 13, 1963
- PETER MATTHEW FEIERABENDPrivate First Class · February 16, 1964
- THADDEUS ZAJACSpecialist Four · September 27, 1965
- JAMES CALVIN WARDPrivate First Class · October 11, 1965
- TIMOTHY HOLTON JOHNSONPrivate First Class · November 6, 1965
- RICHARD WILLIAM SCHWENDLERCorporal · November 16, 1965
- MICHAEL ALFRED GRUBERPrivate First Class · December 5, 1965
- RICHARD JOSEPH BRUNKEPrivate First Class · December 14, 1965
- MICHAEL PETER MORANPrivate First Class · January 9, 1966
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.