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DONALD CURTIS HAMM
Sergeant · U.S. Army
November 7, 1947 – October 9, 1968
Service recordDonald Curtis Hamm, of Mobile, Alabama, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on October 9, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 41W, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41W · Line 35
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 (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- November 7, 1947
- Home of record
- Mobile, Alabama (Mobile County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 9, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date October 9, 1968; three of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 41W, Line 35
- JOHN ALBERT GIACONE JRPrivate First Class · October 9, 1968
- LLOYD DEAN GILLESPIEMaster Sergeant · October 9, 1968
- RICHARD OWEN GRIFFITHPrivate First Class · October 9, 1968
- RONALD EDWARD HIBBARDPrivate First Class · October 9, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GREGORY WILLIAM STEWARTCorporal · Panel 41W, Line 38
From Mobile
- ANDREW C MITCHELL IIICaptain · April 8, 1963
- DAVID RUDOLPH DICKENSFirst Sergeant · November 1, 1965
- EDDIE LEE HILL JRCorporal · November 4, 1965
- SHERMAN ELDRIDGE OTISPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- NATHANIEL EARL CARTER IIISergeant · November 25, 1965
- ROBERT EDWARD BEXLEYPrivate First Class · January 30, 1966
- ROBERT LOUIS BEATONSergeant · February 22, 1966
- JOSEPH EMMETT LILLEYPrivate First Class · May 14, 1966
- JAMES DWIGHT NEWCOMBLance Corporal · July 17, 1966
- TIMOTHY SCOTT DAVIESLance Corporal · July 20, 1966
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.