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ELGIE GEORGE HANNA
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 23, 1949 – March 20, 1968
Service recordElgie George Hanna, of Eaton Rapids, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 20, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 45E, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45E · Line 40
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- January 23, 1949
- Home of record
- Eaton Rapids, Michigan (Eaton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 20, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
41 names on the Wall carry the date March 20, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 104 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 45E, Line 40
- DAVID EDWARD GREGOIRELance Corporal · March 20, 1968
- RUFUS Q HENDERSONSpecialist Four · March 20, 1968
- GEORGE ALBERT JUAREZPrivate First Class · March 20, 1968
- JOHN MICHAEL KARESHospitalman · March 20, 1968
From Eaton Rapids
- ALVIN CHARLES MCMANN JRSpecialist Four · April 2, 1967
- DUANE LEON CLOUSESergeant · May 25, 1969
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.