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HUGHIE OXENDINE
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 3, 1932 – December 25, 1967
Service recordHughie Oxendine, of Lumberton, North Carolina, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 25, 1967, in Tuyen Duc Province, South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32E · Line 59
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- August 3, 1932
- Home of record
- Lumberton, North Carolina (Robeson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 25, 1967
- Age
- 35
- Province
- Tuyen Duc
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date December 25, 1967; he was the only one lost in Tuyen Duc Province that day. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 32E, Line 59
- KENNETH FRANCIS OLENZUKLance Corporal · December 25, 1967
- DONALD WAYNE RICHARDSergeant · December 25, 1967
- FRANCIS EUGENE SANDERSPrivate First Class · December 25, 1967
- PETER W SCOTTSergeant · December 25, 1967
From Lumberton
- DAVID THOMPSONSergeant First Class · January 27, 1964
- FRANKLIN EUGENE HOSLERSergeant · April 4, 1966
- CHARLES EDWARD MCRAESpecialist Four · June 19, 1966
- TIMOTHY COLEMAN PATTERSONSergeant · April 22, 1967
- HARRY L ALWAYFirst Lieutenant · July 13, 1967
- CECIL A MEARESSergeant First Class · September 23, 1967
- GLENN DIRK KERNSPrivate First Class · November 11, 1967
- LEE ANDREW BOWDENSergeant · April 6, 1968
- DONALD FRANK MCKENZIEStaff Sergeant · December 10, 1968
- HARRY HUTCHISON GIBSONFirst Lieutenant · March 21, 1969
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.