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JACK DENNIS HANGER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 30, 1947 – March 21, 1967
Service recordJack Dennis Hanger, of Cypress, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 21, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 4
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- May 30, 1947
- Home of record
- Cypress, California (Orange County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 21, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
95 names on the Wall carry the date March 21, 1967; 16 of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 120 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 4
- CHARLES ROBERT GREERPrivate First Class · March 21, 1967
- EVERETTE EUGENE HARDINGPrivate First Class · March 21, 1967
- JOHN OLIVER HARRISPrivate First Class · March 21, 1967
- ROBERT LEE HENDERSONPrivate First Class · March 21, 1967
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT ALLAN BRIEDSpecialist Four · Panel 16E, Line 130
- ROBERT MICHAEL CARTWRIGHTSpecialist Four · Panel 16E, Line 130
- WALTER GENE MERVIN ELLISSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 2
- JAN JOSEPH GRABOWSKI JRPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 3
- ROBERT LEE HENDERSONPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 4
- DANIEL JENNINGS HOLCOMBSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 5
- JOE RITCHARD JORDANSergeant · Panel 17E, Line 6
- PETER SWINNERTON LARSONCaptain · Panel 17E, Line 6
- HENRY C LEEStaff Sergeant · Panel 17E, Line 7
- PHILIP AARON MCNINCHPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 10
- ROBERT EGMEDIO OCAMPOPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 11
- ROBERT MERRITT PINNELL JRSergeant · Panel 17E, Line 12
- STEPHEN DONALD PLEASANTPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 12
- RAY ANTHONY RHODESSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 12
- FREDERICK WILLIAM SEPUTSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 13
From Cypress
- CHARLES CURTIS CLENDENENSpecialist Four · April 18, 1967
- PETER QUIRINUS BOETS JRCorporal · May 13, 1967
- DAVID MARLOW TOMLINSONPrivate First Class · April 11, 1968
- JACKIE ANDREW CARRANOSpecialist Four · April 22, 1968
- PATRICK DENNIS FAYSpecialist Four · September 10, 1968
- STEVEN PAUL SORICKPrivate First Class · October 21, 1968
- NORBERT OTTO WERNERSergeant · October 31, 1968
- JOHN PHILLIP COOKCorporal · February 18, 1969
- CLIFFORD LEE SWISHERPrivate First Class · March 22, 1969
- ROBERT W ROSSSergeant · May 13, 1975
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.