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EDWARD DEAN HANCOCK
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 20, 1948 – November 22, 1967
Service recordEdward Dean Hancock, of Defiance, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 22, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 62 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30E · Line 62
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- February 20, 1948
- Home of record
- Defiance, Ohio (Defiance County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 22, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
35 names on the Wall carry the date November 22, 1967; he was the only one lost in Bình Dương Province that day. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 54 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 30E, Line 62
- BILLY RAY CUBITPrivate First Class · November 22, 1967
- MARSHALL FRANKLIN FRENGPrivate First Class · November 22, 1967
- KENNETH EUGENE GREENFIELDPrivate First Class · November 22, 1967
- LEVESTER GRIFFINPrivate First Class · November 22, 1967
From Defiance
- KENNETH ERROL GRAHAMPrivate First Class · November 8, 1965
- GARY LEE LOVEPrivate First Class · August 28, 1967
- HERMAN A HESSELSCHWARDTPrivate First Class · April 24, 1968
- JAMES MICHAEL BAKERCorporal · September 14, 1968
- MICHAEL LERO BATTStaff Sergeant · March 16, 1969
- ROGER ERNEST BEHNFELDTCaptain · August 19, 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.