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JESSE VIRGINIUS HAWK III
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
October 27, 1940 – June 14, 1968
Service recordJesse Virginius Hawk III, of Roodhouse, Illinois, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 14, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 57W, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 57W · Line 18
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- October 27, 1940
- Home of record
- Roodhouse, Illinois (Greene County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 14, 1968
- Age
- 27
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date June 14, 1968; eight of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 57W, Line 18
- LARVON FLOYDCorporal · June 14, 1968
- DOUGLAS DAVID GONZALEZPrivate First Class · June 14, 1968
- JAMES LYNWOOD HAWTHORNESpecialist Four · June 14, 1968
- RICKIE JEROME JACOBSPrivate First Class · June 14, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CHRISTOPHER ELLIOTT CLAYPrivate First Class · Panel 57W, Line 16
- JAMES LYNWOOD HAWTHORNESpecialist Four · Panel 57W, Line 18
- STUART OTIS KIEFERSpecialist Four · Panel 57W, Line 19
- ROBERT RICHARD WHITESpecialist Four · Panel 57W, Line 20
- KENNETH DOUGLAS SMITHSpecialist Four · Panel 57W, Line 21
From Roodhouse
- TEDDY WAYNE STEELMANSpecialist Four · February 27, 1967
- GEORGE CHARLES PETERSStaff Sergeant · June 23, 1969
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.