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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of George Jackson Hyatt.

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GEORGE JACKSON HYATT

Sergeant · U.S. Army

October 6, 1946 – April 5, 1969

Service record

George Jackson Hyatt, of Tacoma, Washington, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 5, 1969, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 27W · Line 18

Position of Panel 27W 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
October 6, 1946
Home of record
Tacoma, Washington (Pierce County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 5, 1969
Age
22
Province
Kontum
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

43 names on the Wall carry the date April 5, 1969; eight of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 29 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 27W, Line 18

Same unit, same day

From Tacoma

All 79 names from Tacoma →

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.