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HANS WOLFGANG BRUNNER
Corporal · U.S. Army
December 24, 1944 – March 29, 1968
Service recordHans Wolfgang Brunner, of Oswego, Illinois, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on March 29, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 61
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Tactical Wire Operations Specialist (36K)
- Unit (as recorded)
- HHB 3 BN 6 ARTY 52 ARTY GRP
- Born
- December 24, 1944
- Home of record
- Oswego, Illinois (Kendall County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 29, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date March 29, 1968; two of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Pleiku Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 46E, Line 61
- FRANCIS ALAN ANDERSONSergeant · March 29, 1968
- MICHAEL MCKEE BARRLance Corporal · March 29, 1968
- THOMAS G CARLISLE IIWarrant Officer 1 · March 29, 1968
From Oswego
- FREDERICK CHARLES HERIAUDPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- GARY LEE HARBINPrivate First Class · December 8, 1966
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.