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JEROME GERALD HATTER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 26, 1949 – October 29, 1969
Service recordJerome Gerald Hatter, of Chicago, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 29, 1969, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 16W, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16W · Line 2
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- December 26, 1949
- Home of record
- Chicago, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 29, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
Eight names on the Wall carry the date October 29, 1969; two of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 46 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 16W, Line 2
- JUAN BOSCO BERUMENSpecialist Four · October 29, 1969
- GEORGE RAYMOND HUNTZINGERPrivate First Class · October 29, 1969
- STEPHEN SHERWOOD MACVEANLieutenant · October 29, 1969
- DAVID CRAIG BRANNONSpecialist Four · October 30, 1969
Same unit, same day
- CARMEN DECUBELLIS JRFirst Lieutenant · Panel 16W, Line 1
From Chicago
- MELVIN LESTER WATERSPrivate · February 10, 1965
- WILLIAM RALPH FUHRMANPetty Officer Third Class · April 23, 1965
- RAYMOND LEON HORNCorporal · May 1, 1965
- ARTHUR C JEPSON JRCaptain · May 16, 1965
- DONALD CLAY DEDMONStaff Sergeant · June 10, 1965
- ROGER PELIKANLance Corporal · July 17, 1965
- HARRY COHENTechnical Sergeant · July 19, 1969
- CURTIS LOCKHARTPrivate First Class · July 30, 1965
- EDWARD KOPECPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- JAMES LEO WHITELance Corporal · August 19, 1965
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.