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UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967.
UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967. Photo: PFC Franklin G. Nickerson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of David Colin Hall.

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DAVID COLIN HALL

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

July 12, 1942 – August 29, 1967

Service record

David Colin Hall, of Hanson, Massachusetts, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 29, 1967, in Long Khanh Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 62 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 25E · Line 62

Position of Panel 25E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Air Observation Pilot (1981)
Unit (as recorded)
191 AVN CO 1 AVN BDE
Born
July 12, 1942
Home of record
Hanson, Massachusetts (Plymouth County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 29, 1967
Age
25
Province
Long Khanh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

31 names on the Wall carry the date August 29, 1967; six of them were lost in Long Khanh Province. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “191 AVN CO 1 AVN BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 25E, Line 62

Same unit, same day

From Hanson

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.