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GORDON LEE HOGAN
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
June 29, 1931 – March 31, 1967
Service recordGordon Lee Hogan, of Alton, Illinois, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 31, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 79 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 79
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Motor Transport Operations Chief (3537)
- Born
- June 29, 1931
- Home of record
- Alton, Illinois (Madison County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 31, 1967
- Age
- 35
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date March 31, 1967; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 79
- A G HENSLEYSpecialist Four · March 31, 1967
- MANUEL ARTLAN HICKS JRPrivate First Class · March 31, 1967
- RICHARD ALFRED HILLFirst Lieutenant · March 31, 1967
- MICHAEL J LAURIEPrivate First Class · March 31, 1967
From Alton
- CHARLES ADAM MCGEEPrivate First Class · March 5, 1966
- ROBERT NELSON DAVISPrivate First Class · April 26, 1966
- HERMAN ROBERT ARMSTRONGPrivate First Class · August 22, 1966
- LEONARD WITCHER IIILance Corporal · September 15, 1966
- DENNIS LYNN DOOLEYSpecialist Four · November 10, 1966
- HERSCHEL LEE EPPS JRPrivate First Class · January 17, 1967
- STEPHEN ANDREW CHILDERSCaptain · January 19, 1967
- RAMON J MORALESPrivate First Class · May 26, 1967
- FREDERICK H ELIZONDOWarrant Officer 1 · June 6, 1967
- KENNETH MICHAEL WRIGHTPrivate First Class · June 28, 1967
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.