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HUGHIE FRANKLIN SNIDER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 29, 1949 – April 28, 1970
Service recordHughie Franklin Snider, of New Cumberland, West Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 28, 1970, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 11W, Line 65 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 11W · Line 65
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 5 INF DIV MECH
- Born
- April 29, 1949
- Home of record
- New Cumberland, West Virginia (Hancock County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 28, 1970
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date April 28, 1970; two of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “5 INF DIV MECH”, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 11W, Line 65
- PAUL EDWARD ANGERTPrivate First Class · April 28, 1970
- FERNANDO RIOS-MALDONADOSergeant · April 28, 1970
- RAYMOND PETER SUSICorporal · April 28, 1970
- JOHN DANIEL VANDIVIERSergeant · April 28, 1970
Same unit, same day
- VERNON RAY RILEYSpecialist Four · Panel 11W, Line 64
From New Cumberland
- GEORGE W LOCKE JRSecond Lieutenant · October 13, 1967
- KENNETH CLINTON SPENCERSergeant · September 23, 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.