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A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967.
A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, DASPO, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of George A Hoagland III.

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GEORGE A HOAGLAND III

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

February 15, 1935 – January 29, 1966

Service record

George A Hoagland III, of Phoenix, Arizona, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 29, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 109 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 4E · Line 109

Position of Panel 4E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
Unit (as recorded)
SPECIAL FORCES
Born
February 15, 1935
Home of record
Phoenix, Arizona (Maricopa County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 29, 1966
Age
30
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

60 names on the Wall carry the date January 29, 1966. In January 1966, 401 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 4E, Line 109

Same unit, same day

From Phoenix

All 207 names from Phoenix →

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.