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DICK DALE HAMILTON
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
November 28, 1934 – August 21, 1968
Service recordDick Dale Hamilton, of Vincennes, Indiana, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 21, 1968, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 47W, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47W · Line 18
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Aircraft Quality Control Supervisor (67W)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- November 28, 1934
- Home of record
- Vincennes, Indiana (Knox County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 21, 1968
- Age
- 33
- Province
- Phuoc Tuy
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date August 21, 1968; four of them were lost in Phuoc Tuy Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 47W, Line 18
- WILLIAM ERVIN FENNELLSpecialist Four · August 21, 1968
- JAMES RICHARD HAMILTONSpecialist Four · August 21, 1968
- LOWELL RAY HANSONPrivate First Class · August 21, 1968
- JAMES LAVERN HARBOTTLECorporal · August 21, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DOUGLAS WOODROW COLLINSWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 47W, Line 16
From Vincennes
- BILLY WAYNE HEDGECorporal · November 22, 1965
- ROBERT JAMES ROSEPrivate First Class · May 3, 1967
- JAMES EDWARD HAYNESStaff Sergeant · November 24, 1967
- JERRY EARL PRYSpecialist Four · January 8, 1968
- BRUCE EDGAR STRATECorporal · February 7, 1968
- WILLIAM DENNI MCALLISTERFirst Lieutenant · March 6, 1969
- JAMES WAYNE BEDELLCorporal · July 7, 1969
- THOMAS ANDREW HIGGINSPrivate First Class · September 2, 1969
- JAMES ANTHONY BAILEYCorporal · November 20, 1969
- CHARLES ALLEN COVEYSpecialist Four · May 10, 1970
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.