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FRANK LEE HOGE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
February 20, 1947 – February 17, 1968
Service recordFrank Lee Hoge, of Bellefontaine, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 17, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 72 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39E · Line 72
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- February 20, 1947
- Home of record
- Bellefontaine, Ohio (Logan County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 17, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
51 names on the Wall carry the date February 17, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 144 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 39E, Line 72
- HENRY F HENDERSON IIIPrivate First Class · February 17, 1968
- ROBERT ALAN JACKSONSergeant · February 17, 1968
- SYLVESTER WARREN MCFARLANDLance Corporal · February 17, 1968
- AMON FRANKLIN MOORE JRPetty Officer Third Class · February 17, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DAVID WARD FRAVELSergeant · Panel 39E, Line 70
- HENRY GREGORYPrivate First Class · Panel 39E, Line 71
- ROBERT ALAN JACKSONSergeant · Panel 39E, Line 72
- RICHARD WARREN PERSHINGSecond Lieutenant · Panel 39E, Line 76
From Bellefontaine
- HERBERT STEPHEN BECHTELPrivate First Class · August 25, 1966
- ROGER LOUIS PARKERCorporal · January 19, 1967
- JAMES ALLEN EARICKPetty Officer Second Class · July 29, 1967
- DAVID RICHARD KELLERLance Corporal · June 5, 1968
- ROGER EUGENE SHEPHERDPrivate First Class · November 1, 1968
- JERRY LEE SOUTHARDCorporal · June 25, 1969
- JAMES ROBERT GEUYPrivate First Class · July 11, 1969
- LEWIS EUGENE HUGHES IILance Corporal · June 13, 1970
- KENNETH LOVELACEStaff Sergeant · January 22, 1971
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.