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GREGG CLIFTON HINDERKS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 2, 1946 – June 29, 1969
Service recordGregg Clifton Hinderks, of Stewartsville, Missouri, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 29, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21W · Line 32
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
- January 2, 1946
- Home of record
- Stewartsville, Missouri (De Kalb County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 29, 1969
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date June 29, 1969; four of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 92 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 21W, Line 32
- DONALD PAUL DAVIESSpecialist Five · June 29, 1969
- RICHARD ERNEST DOPPSpecialist Four · June 29, 1969
- WAYNE HERSCHEL EMERSONSpecialist Four · June 29, 1969
- JOHN CARL GUENTHER JRSergeant · June 29, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JOHN CARL GUENTHER JRSergeant · Panel 21W, Line 32
- ROBERT DUANE PAULUSSecond Lieutenant · Panel 21W, Line 34
- DANIEL KEITH WAPINSKISecond Lieutenant · Panel 21W, Line 35
From Stewartsville
- GARY PHELPS OFFUTTFirst Lieutenant · October 1, 1965
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.