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IVAN LOUIS HELLER
Hospitalman · U.S. Navy
August 5, 1947 – October 11, 1968
Service recordIvan Louis Heller, of Geneseo, Illinois, served as a Hospitalman in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 11, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 41W, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41W · Line 46
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. Navy
- Rank
- Hospitalman (HN)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- August 5, 1947
- Home of record
- Geneseo, Illinois (Henry County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 11, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date October 11, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 41W, Line 46
- THOMAS FRED HANKINSLance Corporal · October 11, 1968
- LANTIE LAWRENCE HARRIS JRLance Corporal · October 11, 1968
- BRIAN TRACY HEAVERLance Corporal · October 11, 1968
- WAYNE GEORGE HENSLEYSergeant · October 11, 1968
From Geneseo
- CARL EDWARD KLEINAUSpecialist Four · April 30, 1969
- NELS IVAR HEMMINGSONLance Corporal · June 17, 1970
- JOHNNY DELBERT VERSCHEURESpecialist Four · December 12, 1970
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.