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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Albert George Hallowell.

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ALBERT GEORGE HALLOWELL

Lieutenant · U.S. Navy

July 3, 1927 – October 16, 1966

Service record

Albert George Hallowell, of Highland Park, Michigan, served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 16, 1966, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 39. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 79 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 11E · Line 79

Position of Panel 11E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Lieutenant (LT)
Service
Regular
Born
July 3, 1927
Home of record
Highland Park, Michigan (Wayne County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 16, 1966
Age
39
Province
Kien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

Seven names on the Wall carry the date October 16, 1966; he was the only one lost in Kien Hoa Province that day. In October 1966, 516 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 11E, Line 79

From Highland Park

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.