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RAYMOND WIL MICHALOPOULOS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 15, 1946 – November 21, 1967
Service recordRaymond Wil Michalopoulos, of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 21, 1967, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30E · Line 57
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- July 15, 1946
- Home of record
- Pawtucket, Rhode Island (Providence County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 21, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date November 21, 1967; ten of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 212 of its members that month.
He died in Kon Tum Province while the Battle of Đắk Tô was under way. Around Đắk Tô in the Central Highlands (3–23 November 1967), the 4th Infantry Division and the 173rd Airborne Brigade fought North Vietnamese regiments for the hills along the border, ending with the assault on Hill 875 on Thanksgiving Day. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 30E, Line 57
- RALPH EDWARD JOHNSONLance Corporal · November 21, 1967
- ROY RONALD LEESpecialist Four · November 21, 1967
- ROBERT WILLIAM LINDGRENSpecialist Four · November 21, 1967
- ROLAND WILL MANUELStaff Sergeant · November 21, 1967
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM CECIL HINKLEPrivate First Class · Panel 30E, Line 56
- GERALD KLOSSEKPrivate First Class · Panel 30E, Line 56
- ROY RONALD LEESpecialist Four · Panel 30E, Line 57
- ROBERT WILLIAM LINDGRENSpecialist Four · Panel 30E, Line 57
- ROLAND WILL MANUELStaff Sergeant · Panel 30E, Line 57
- OLIS RAY RIGBYSpecialist Four · Panel 30E, Line 59
- JESSE E SMITHPrivate First Class · Panel 30E, Line 59
- DAVID RICHARD REYNOLDSPrivate First Class · Panel 30E, Line 60
From Pawtucket
- ANTONIO PAUL MACIMINIOLance Corporal · May 21, 1966
- RONALD GERARD PIERCEPrivate First Class · September 6, 1966
- NORMAND AURELE PLANTESpecialist Four · April 28, 1967
- CHARLES YAGHOOBIAN JRFirst Lieutenant · October 14, 1967
- ROBERT WILFRED RENAUDPrivate First Class · January 5, 1968
- WILLIAM HOWARD MOORE IIISpecialist Four · January 28, 1968
- JAMES VINCENT CAVANAUGHSpecialist Four · February 18, 1969
- ROBERT EDWARD OBRIENCaptain · March 21, 1969
- WALTER LEO PRITCHARD JRLieutenant Colonel · April 12, 1969
- JAMES WILLIAM DEANLance Corporal · April 14, 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.