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STEPHEN MICHAEL MINICK
Sergeant · U.S. Army
January 15, 1948 – March 26, 1967
Service recordStephen Michael Minick, of Salisbury, Pennsylvania, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 26, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 55 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 55
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- January 15, 1948
- Home of record
- Salisbury, Pennsylvania (Somerset County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 26, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date March 26, 1967; three of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 45 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 17E, Line 55
- LARRY JOSEPH LARSONPrivate First Class · March 26, 1967
- RALPH JAMES SMITHCorporal · March 26, 1967
- JAMES LAYMAN VERHELSTLance Corporal · March 26, 1967
- CYRIL JEFFREY WESTLYHospitalman · March 26, 1967
Same unit, same day
- IVY THOMAS ANDERSONStaff Sergeant · Panel 17E, Line 48
- JOHN HENRY JAMES JRSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 52
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.