Name: 1LT Lee Michael Halstead
Status: Killed In Action from an incident on 09/29/1968 while performing the duty of Pilot.
Age at death: 23.9
Date of Birth: 11/22/1944
Home City: Lansing, MI
Service: reserve component of the U.S. Marine Corps.
Unit: HML-167
Service: U.S. Marine Corps.
The Wall location: 42W-041
Short Summary: Died on Airborne Personnel Detector mission that received fire, crashed and burned. Bodies recovered later.
Aircraft: UH-1E tail number 155343
Service number: 094751
Country: South Vietnam
MOS: 7563 = Pilot UH-1N Qualified
Primary cause: Hostile Fire
Started Tour: 04/26/1968
"Official" listing: helicopter air casualty - pilot
Length of service: 02
Location: Quang Nam Province I Corps.
Reason: aircraft lost or crashed
Casualty type: Hostile - killed
married male U.S. citizen
Race: Caucasian
Religion: Protestant - no denominational preference
Burial information: DEEPDALE MEMORIAL GARDENS, LANSING, MI
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