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PETER T MELAHN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
June 4, 1942 – December 11, 1967
Service recordPeter T Melahn, of Woodmere, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 11, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 81 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31E · Line 81
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- June 4, 1942
- Home of record
- Woodmere, New York (Nassau County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 11, 1967
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date December 11, 1967; two of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 106 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 31E, Line 81
- SAMUEL GRAYCorporal · December 11, 1967
- ANDRES LIMONPrivate First Class · December 11, 1967
- DANIEL JOHN MAGUIRESpecialist Four · December 11, 1967
- DOUGLAS ISAAC MOYERSecond Lieutenant · December 11, 1967
Same unit, same day
- DOUGLAS ISAAC MOYERSecond Lieutenant · Panel 31E, Line 81
From Woodmere
- STEVEN ANDREW GERSHNOWPrivate First Class · July 18, 1968
- ROBERT IRWIN MEEKERSergeant · February 18, 1969
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.