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DAVID LAWTON HODGES
Lieutenant · U.S. Navy
November 21, 1937 – October 7, 1967
Service recordDavid Lawton Hodges, of Chevy Chase, Maryland, served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 7, 1967, in North Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 66 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27E · Line 66
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
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1310)
- Born
- November 21, 1937
- Home of record
- Chevy Chase, Maryland (Montgomery County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 7, 1967
- Age
- 29
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date October 7, 1967. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 27E, Line 66
- JAMES LARRY LAWRENCECorporal · October 7, 1967
- JOHNNIE RAY MCMURRAYSergeant · October 7, 1967
- ROBERT JERRY PADGETTCorporal · October 7, 1967
- BENJAMIN F PHILLIPS JRMaster Sergeant · October 7, 1967
From Chevy Chase
- THOMAS WELLER MCCARTHYCaptain · March 3, 1964
- ROY TULANE OKEEFESergeant · February 6, 1968
- CHARLES LAWRENCE FLOTTCaptain · June 5, 1972
- PATRICK A DECK JRFirst Lieutenant · September 18, 1965
- GEORGE BADEN WARINGMajor · August 26, 1972
- JEREMIAH FREDERICK COSTELLOCaptain · May 25, 1973
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.