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JOHN ARTHUR HOOKER
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
September 21, 1938 – March 10, 1968
Service recordJohn Arthur Hooker, of Greenville, South Carolina, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 10, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 8
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
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- September 21, 1938
- Home of record
- Greenville, South Carolina (Greenville County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 10, 1968
- Age
- 29
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
46 names on the Wall carry the date March 10, 1968; three of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 101 of its members that month.
He died in Hua Nghia Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 44E, Line 8
- DAN LEON HERDEBUSpecialist Four · March 10, 1968
- JOHN FOSTER JOHNSONSpecialist Four · March 10, 1968
- HOMER HARDY LEEPlatoon Sergeant · March 10, 1968
- BOSCH DWAINE WILME VANDENPrivate First Class · March 10, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES MCKINLEY HAIRSTONSpecialist Four · Panel 44E, Line 7
- DURWOOD BERT LOMBARDSpecialist Five · Panel 44E, Line 9
- RICHARD ALBERT MARSHCorporal · Panel 44E, Line 9
- JOHN WILLIAM MURPHY IIICorporal · Panel 44E, Line 10
- RICHARD CHARLES WESTBERGPrivate First Class · Panel 44E, Line 12
From Greenville
- THOMAS EDWARD MCMAHAN JRCaptain · September 28, 1965
- GARY RAY BRYANTSpecialist Four · January 25, 1966
- WALTER REAVES TATE JRSpecialist Four · July 20, 1966
- WILLIAM HENRY HAWKINSStaff Sergeant · July 24, 1966
- SAMUEL RALPH MOSERPrivate First Class · August 3, 1966
- CHARLIE LYLES JRSergeant · November 17, 1966
- KENNETH RHODESSpecialist Four · December 12, 1966
- DOUGLAS MACARTHUR MCCRARYFirst Lieutenant · February 16, 1967
- DANA CORNELL DARNELLLance Corporal · April 26, 1967
- JIMMY WILLIAM HALLLance Corporal · June 7, 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.