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ALAN ROLF HINZPETER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 12, 1949 – September 6, 1971
Service recordAlan Rolf Hinzpeter, of Minot, North Dakota, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 6, 1971, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2W · Line 11
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- May 12, 1949
- Home of record
- Minot, North Dakota (Ward County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 6, 1971
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
Two names on the Wall carry the date September 6, 1971; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In September 1971, 127 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 2W, Line 11
- THOMAS EDWARD SWEINSBERGERSpecialist Four · September 4, 1971
- RONNIE SHINYA MARSHALLSergeant · September 6, 1971
- BRUCE ALTON CANNONCaptain · September 7, 1971
- JIMMIE DAVID HINTONSpecialist Five · September 7, 1971
From Minot
- ALLAN JAMES KOROMLance Corporal · May 22, 1966
- THOMAS A WELKERStaff Sergeant · July 27, 1967
- LEON LEROY LOCHTHOWEPrivate First Class · September 22, 1967
- WARD GUNARD WALTERSergeant · November 29, 1967
- RICHARD LEE BORGMANPrivate First Class · March 3, 1968
- GEORGE ERNEST VALKER IIISpecialist Four · August 10, 1968
- ROBERT ALVIN BROTHENSergeant · February 27, 1969
- LAWRENCE ROBERT ESSERSpecialist Four · March 12, 1969
- RICHARD ANTHONY VOLKLance Corporal · March 19, 1969
- JOHN MORRIS JOYCEFirst Lieutenant · April 17, 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.