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DAVID PAUL HOFFMAN
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
December 17, 1946 – February 26, 1970
Service recordDavid Paul Hoffman, of Florissant, Missouri, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on February 26, 1970, in An Giang Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 13W, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13W · Line 58
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
- Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Engineman (EN)
- Born
- December 17, 1946
- Home of record
- Florissant, Missouri (St Louis County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 26, 1970
- Age
- 23
- Province
- An Giang
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date February 26, 1970; nine of them were lost in An Giang Province. In February 1970, 569 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 13W, Line 58
- HENRY HUDSON JRLieutenant (junior grade) · February 26, 1970
- WILLIAM DAVIS KRISTJANSONSergeant · February 26, 1970
- BERNARD LOUIS LEFEVRELieutenant · February 26, 1970
From Florissant
- THOMAS MICHAEL NOWACKPrivate First Class · February 6, 1967
- KENNETH GENE BLANTONSpecialist Four · March 21, 1967
- LOUIS FERDINAND KEEVENChief Warrant Officer 2 · December 4, 1967
- JOHN WILLIAM MURPHY IIICorporal · March 10, 1968
- JAMES DAVID AMESSpecialist Four · May 14, 1968
- CHARLES EDWARD DELASSUSSergeant · September 27, 1968
- LAWRENCE MICHAEL WEICHECorporal · January 31, 1969
- CHARLES FRANCIS PREVEDELSergeant First Class · April 17, 1969
- GREGORY RAYMOND VOGLERSpecialist Four · June 3, 1969
- MICHAEL GENE FREYPrivate First Class · July 14, 1969
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.