Michael Patrick Halpin
Private First Class
B CO, 1ST BN, 5TH INFANTRY, 25TH INF DIV, USARV
Army of the United States
Nutley, New Jersey
February 28, 1946 to January 19, 1968
MICHAEL P HALPIN is on the Wall at Panel 34E, Line 77

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Michael P Halpin

PFC MICHAEL PATRICK HALPIN

 
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Photo courtesy of
Richard Merriman

Michael Patrick Halpin, we called him Hippie! He was our Santa, he made us smile, he brought us joy, Christmas Day, 1967, and he left us in tears on January 19, 1968!! Hippie's presence is with us today, he will never be forgotten!!

- Roger Smith -
1st Plt, Bravo Company 1/5 INF (Mech) 1967-68

REMEMBERED

by his comrades in the
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5th Infantry - the Bobcats

 

A Note from The Virtual Wall

On 19 Jan 1968 elements of B Company, 1/5th Infantry, were escorting a convoy through the Ben Cui Rubber Plantation when an APC was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. Two men died in the explosion; the third was shot to death while trying to pull the wounded driver from the APC. The three men killed in the incident were
  • PFC Charles E. Davis, Galt, CA
  • PFC Michael P. Halpin, Nutley, NJ (Silver Star)
  • PFC Jack J. Kupferer, Terre Haute, IN (Silver Star)

REMEMBERED

by their comrades in the
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5th Infantry - the Bobcats

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