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Australian, American, South Vietnamese and Korean soldiers at the Đức Mỹ Ranger Training Center, December 1965.
Australian, American, South Vietnamese and Korean soldiers at the Đức Mỹ Ranger Training Center, December 1965. Photo: SP5 Allan K. Holm, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of James Robert Hagen.

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JAMES ROBERT HAGEN

Lieutenant Colonel · U.S. Army

May 6, 1921 – December 24, 1964

Service record

James Robert Hagen, of Stanley, Wisconsin, served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army. He died on December 24, 1964, in South Vietnam, at age 43. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 78 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 1E · Line 78

Position of Panel 1E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Lieutenant Colonel (LTC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Dental Officer (3170)
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
May 6, 1921
Home of record
Stanley, Wisconsin (Chippewa County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 24, 1964
Age
43
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

One name on the Wall carry the date December 24, 1964. In December 1964, 36 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 1E, Line 78

From Stanley

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.