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JAMES LEROY HAMMAR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 13, 1946 – September 30, 1967
Service recordJames Leroy Hammar, of La Mirada, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 30, 1967, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27E · Line 34
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- March 13, 1946
- Home of record
- La Mirada, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 30, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
12 names on the Wall carry the date September 30, 1967; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 52 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27E, Line 34
- ERNEST BEAUEL HANKS IIIPrivate First Class · September 30, 1967
- MICHAEL JOE KRUGSergeant · September 30, 1967
- DALE MICHAEL LAUSESpecialist Four · September 30, 1967
- JACKIE EDWARD TROSPERPrivate First Class · September 30, 1967
Same unit, same day
- DAVID PAUL COVENYPrivate First Class · Panel 27E, Line 33
- MICHAEL JOE KRUGSergeant · Panel 27E, Line 34
- DALE MICHAEL LAUSESpecialist Four · Panel 27E, Line 34
From La Mirada
- MIGUEL RAMON BURRIPrivate First Class · December 18, 1966
- THOMAS ROBERT POPEPrivate First Class · March 14, 1968
- LESTER LEWIS MOOREPrivate First Class · April 22, 1968
- PEDRO ROMERO JRPrivate First Class · May 10, 1968
- GARY GEORGE STEVENSONPrivate First Class · June 9, 1968
- JOSEPH CRAIG MARTINPrivate First Class · January 13, 1969
- ENCARNASION RODRIGUEZSergeant · September 17, 1969
- CHARLES RUPERT TRICKERCorporal · February 27, 1971
- RICHARD NORMAN LEESpecialist Four · June 25, 1971
- SCOTT LEE BIRKETAirman First Class · September 30, 1972
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.