Michael Pierce Oliver
Military Data
Note Posthumous Promotion as indicated
MOS 11B10 Infantryman
Length Service 01
Unit D Company, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry, 196th Light Infantry Brigade, Americal Division, USARV
Casualty Data
Start Tour 3 May 1967
Incident Date 8 January 1968
Casualty Date 8 January 1968
Age at Loss 20
Location , South Vietnam
Remains Body recovered
Casualty Type Hostile, died outright
Casualty Reason Ground casualty
Casualty Detail Gun or small arms fire
Vietnam Wall Panel 33E Line 090
| Known to everyone as, “Ollie.” Always had a “chaw” of tobacco in his mouth. Quiet humble good soldier. Submitted by Thomas Clayton. |
- Rank: Sergeant
- Date of birth: 8 October 1947
- Date of death: 8 January 1968
- County: Johnson
- Hometown: Butler
- Service Branch: Army
- Division/Assignment: 196th Light Infantry Brigade
- Conflict: Vietnam
- Awards: Purple Heart
- Burial/Memorial Location: Butler Memorial Cemetery, Butler, Johnson County, TN
- Location In Memorial: Pillar XXIII, Top Panel
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