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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of David Russell Hanna.

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DAVID RUSSELL HANNA

Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army

February 28, 1947 – September 3, 1969

Service record

David Russell Hanna, of Clinton, Ohio, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on September 3, 1969, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 18W · Line 28

Position of Panel 18W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Utility/Observation Helicopter Pilot (100B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
February 28, 1947
Home of record
Clinton, Ohio (Summit County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 3, 1969
Age
22
Province
Binh Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

25 names on the Wall carry the date September 3, 1969; nine of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 71 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 18W, Line 28

Same unit, same day

From Clinton

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.