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DWIGHT LEE HACKWORTH
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 14, 1948 – March 4, 1967
Service recordDwight Lee Hackworth, of San Antonio, Texas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 4, 1967, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 17
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
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- August 14, 1948
- Home of record
- San Antonio, Texas (Bexar County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 4, 1967
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
15 names on the Wall carry the date March 4, 1967; two of them were lost in Long An Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 45 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 16E, Line 17
- WALTER VINCENT HULINGSCorporal · March 4, 1967
- CHARLIE BERNARD INGRAM JRSpecialist Four · March 4, 1967
- RUSSELL CARL JOHNSONSpecialist Four · March 4, 1967
- ROY ROBERT LAPISHSergeant First Class · March 4, 1967
Same unit, same day
- LIONEL S ANTHONYPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 15
From San Antonio
- JOHN DUARTEPrivate First Class · January 20, 1963
- ROBERT LOUIS RAGSDALESecond Lieutenant · June 26, 1964
- DELBERT LEE VAUGHN JRStaff Sergeant · October 4, 1964
- ARTHUR DALE BAKERMajor · April 7, 1965
- JESSE RODRIQUEZ ACOSTAStaff Sergeant · May 16, 1965
- RUDOLPH VILLALP HERNANDEZPrivate · July 7, 1965
- VIRGIL GALAN CRUZLance Corporal · September 28, 1965
- ROBERT WAYNE WRANOSKYCaptain · December 7, 1965
- BILLIE JACK CARTWRIGHTCaptain · December 12, 1965
- JOSE ANTONIO GUTIERREZSpecialist Four · January 28, 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.