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ERNEST BEAUEL HANKS III
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 7, 1947 – September 30, 1967
Service recordErnest Beauel Hanks III, of Willows, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 30, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27E · Line 34
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Radio Operator (2531)
- Born
- January 7, 1947
- Home of record
- Willows, California (Glenn County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 30, 1967
- 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
12 names on the Wall carry the date September 30, 1967; two of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Con Thien was under way. Through September and October 1967, North Vietnamese artillery across the Demilitarized Zone pounded the Marine outpost at Con Thien and the bases along the DMZ in Quảng Trị Province. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 27E, Line 34
- JAMES LEROY HAMMARSpecialist Four · September 30, 1967
- MICHAEL JOE KRUGSergeant · September 30, 1967
- DALE MICHAEL LAUSESpecialist Four · September 30, 1967
- JACKIE EDWARD TROSPERPrivate First Class · September 30, 1967
From Willows
- MICHAEL EDWARD FLANNERYSpecialist Four · November 17, 1967
- PAUL DOUGLAS BRUMMETSpecialist Four · March 3, 1970
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.