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HOWARD EMERSON HANSON JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 18, 1947 – January 8, 1968
Service recordHoward Emerson Hanson JR, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 8, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 33E, Line 86 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33E · Line 86
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Multichannel Transmission Systems (31M)
- Unit (as recorded)
- D CO 44 SIG BN 1 SIG BDE
- Born
- June 18, 1947
- Home of record
- Cedar Rapids, Iowa (Linn County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 8, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
101 names on the Wall carry the date January 8, 1968; three of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “D CO 44 SIG BN 1 SIG BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 33E, Line 86
- MICHAEL JENNINGS HALLSecond Lieutenant · January 8, 1968
- ROBERT E LEE HAMILTONPrivate First Class · January 8, 1968
- RONALD LEE HETLANDLance Corporal · January 8, 1968
- JOHN ROY HULBERTPrivate First Class · January 8, 1968
Same unit, same day
- J C STORYSpecialist Four · Panel 33E, Line 93
From Cedar Rapids
- ROBERT MILVOY HORSKYMajor · December 11, 1965
- DENNIS LEE EILERSCaptain · December 24, 1965
- JAMES PHILLIP SCHIMBERGSpecialist Four · January 9, 1966
- MARK LEO ENGLISHSpecialist Four · December 18, 1966
- JOHN WALTER WALLCorporal · April 21, 1967
- CHARLES EDWARD GRADOVILLELance Corporal · June 16, 1967
- WAYNE FRANK WHITEMANLance Corporal · October 22, 1967
- CURTIS DEAN SNITKERCorporal · February 1, 1968
- DANIEL JAMES KAPLANLance Corporal · February 7, 1968
- HERBERT RAY ALDRIDGEPrivate First Class · March 6, 1968
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.