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JOE EDD HESTER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 26, 1946 – February 9, 1969
Service recordJoe Edd Hester, of Mayfield, Kentucky, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 9, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 33W, Line 93 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33W · Line 93
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)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- June 26, 1946
- Home of record
- Mayfield, Kentucky (Graves County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 9, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
34 names on the Wall carry the date February 9, 1969; three of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 119 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 33W, Line 93
- LYMAN RICHARD DITSONSergeant · February 9, 1969
- RONALD JAMES FLOYDPrivate First Class · February 9, 1969
- BOBBY GENE GAMBLECorporal · February 9, 1969
- JOHN LEE HAWKINS JRCorporal · February 9, 1969
Same unit, same day
- RUSSELL BYRD ADAMSPrivate First Class · Panel 33W, Line 90
- MILTON ALAN ROSSPrivate First Class · Panel 32W, Line 2
- THOMAS MARTIN NEALSergeant · Panel 32W, Line 3
From Mayfield
- ROBERT LOYD EMERSONPrivate · June 7, 1966
- WILLIAM GORDON FLEMING JRPrivate First Class · September 17, 1966
- BOBBY JOE LAWRENCESergeant First Class · December 23, 1967
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.