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ARTHUR JAMES HOYT
Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 29, 1944 – June 15, 1968
Service recordArthur James Hoyt, of Mars Hill, Maine, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 15, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 57W, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 57W · Line 27
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- August 29, 1944
- Home of record
- Mars Hill, Maine (Aroostook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 15, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
60 names on the Wall carry the date June 15, 1968; six of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 57W, Line 27
- DONALD ROBERT HAWYERLance Corporal · June 15, 1968
- RODGER DALE HEBERTPrivate First Class · June 15, 1968
- KENNETH RICHARD HUGGANSPrivate First Class · June 15, 1968
- STEPHEN DOUGLAS JOYNERFirst Lieutenant · June 15, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JOHN VINCENT AKINPrivate First Class · Panel 57W, Line 22
- ROBERT DAVID BROCKMANPrivate First Class · Panel 57W, Line 23
- MICHAEL DENNIS DAVIDSpecialist Four · Panel 57W, Line 24
- RALPH HENRY FRANCK JRPrivate First Class · Panel 57W, Line 25
- JAMES EDWARD SULLINGERCorporal · Panel 57W, Line 32
- OSCAR VALENZUELA JRPrivate First Class · Panel 57W, Line 33
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.