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DEN JUNIOR HAWKINS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 24, 1950 – May 8, 1968
Service recordDen Junior Hawkins, of Gastonia, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 8, 1968, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 57E, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 57E · Line 4
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- January 24, 1950
- Home of record
- Gastonia, North Carolina (Gaston County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 8, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Other Weapons
Context · from the records
What was happening
78 names on the Wall carry the date May 8, 1968; he was the only one lost in Kien Hoa Province that day. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.
Read the history
Also on Panel 57E, Line 4
- ROBERT STEPHEN PO HUBBARDSeaman · May 8, 1968
- FREDERICK JARRETTPrivate First Class · May 8, 1968
- ROBERT EARL JENNESpecialist Four · May 8, 1968
- ARMSTEAD JOHNSONStaff Sergeant · May 8, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JOHN WILLIAM BEZECNYSergeant · Panel 56E, Line 35
- MICHAEL DENNIS CONNOLLYSergeant · Panel 56E, Line 37
- DAVID B RODMANCaptain · Panel 57E, Line 9
- LLOYD EUGENE TRIBBETTPlatoon Sergeant · Panel 57E, Line 11
From Gastonia
- MAUSBY EDWARD HYLEMANSpecialist Four · October 1, 1965
- CARL DUANE PRUITTPrivate First Class · November 4, 1966
- ROBERT STEVEN KEENERPrivate First Class · January 13, 1967
- DONALD TERRY HELTONSpecialist Four · April 3, 1967
- TONY LEE VAN WHITELance Corporal · September 7, 1967
- CARL HORACE WALL JRLance Corporal · October 6, 1967
- MICHAEL YATES KEETERPrivate First Class · February 1, 1968
- GLENN WILLIAM RAMEYPrivate First Class · February 2, 1968
- ROGER LYNN COUICKPrivate First Class · February 17, 1968
- ROBERT LEE TATECorporal · April 7, 1968
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.