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DWIGHT HODGES
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
December 15, 1948 – December 23, 1968
Service recordDwight Hodges, of Kosciusko, Mississippi, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 23, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 69
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- December 15, 1948
- Home of record
- Kosciusko, Mississippi (Attala County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 23, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date December 23, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 69
- WALLACE GOINGPetty Officer Second Class · December 23, 1968
- GERARDO HOLQUIN GONZALESLance Corporal · December 23, 1968
- GARY LEE HOGANPrivate First Class · December 23, 1968
- HERBERT EDGAR ING IIISecond Lieutenant · December 23, 1968
From Kosciusko
- BOBBY RAY MCKINNONPrivate First Class · January 7, 1968
- FRANKLIN ZOLLICOFFERSpecialist Four · April 24, 1972
- PERCY GUY BROCK JRSergeant First Class · June 29, 1972
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.