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ARLEN JOHN HUNTER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 29, 1946 – October 27, 1968
Service recordArlen John Hunter, of Kyle, South Dakota, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 27, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 40W, Line 44 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40W · Line 44
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. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Watercraft Engineer (61C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- October 29, 1946
- Home of record
- Kyle, South Dakota (Shannon County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 27, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
35 names on the Wall carry the date October 27, 1968; two of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 40W, Line 44
- NOBLE THOMAS HEADSpecialist Four · October 27, 1968
- LARRY DELANO HOSFORDMajor · October 27, 1968
- DOUGLAS CLEMENS KLOSESpecialist Four · October 27, 1968
- JIMMY RUSSELL LIPECorporal · October 27, 1968
From Kyle
- CROW BLAIR WILLIAM TWOPrivate First Class · December 4, 1968
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.