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BYRON DWAYNE HAMLETT
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
June 3, 1930 – March 10, 1967
Service recordByron Dwayne Hamlett, of Pulaski, Tennessee, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 10, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 52 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 52
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 First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- General Supply Specialist (76K)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- June 3, 1930
- Home of record
- Pulaski, Tennessee (Giles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 10, 1967
- Age
- 36
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date March 10, 1967. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 16E, Line 52
- JOHN HENRY FLYNNSpecialist Four · March 10, 1967
- BERNARD ANTHONY FREYNELance Corporal · March 10, 1967
- EDWARD SENIOR HALLSpecialist Four · March 10, 1967
- LEO CLAUDE HESTERLieutenant Commander · March 10, 1967
Same unit, same day
- CHESTER ARTHUR MYERS JRFirst Lieutenant · Panel 16E, Line 54
- ROGER WILLIAM RABEYSecond Lieutenant · Panel 16E, Line 54
From Pulaski
- HOWARD PALMA PETTYLieutenant Colonel · March 15, 1968
- THOMAS LEE MCELROYPrivate First Class · July 5, 1968
- LEONARD DWIGHT CUNNINGHAMChief Warrant Officer 2 · March 12, 1970
- JOHNIE KENNETH WOODARDSpecialist Five · April 25, 1971
- LOWELL THOMAS GLOSSUPSergeant First Class · May 20, 1971
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.