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JOSEPH HUDSON JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 27, 1944 – February 21, 1968
Service recordJoseph Hudson JR, of Deerfield Beach, Florida, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 21, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 53
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- December 27, 1944
- Home of record
- Deerfield Beach, Florida (Broward County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 21, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date February 21, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 140 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Tín 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 40E, Line 53
- CHARLES RONALD HORTONPrivate First Class · February 21, 1968
- ZYGMUNT PAUL JABLONSKI JRPrivate First Class · February 21, 1968
- THOMAS LEE JORDANPrivate First Class · February 21, 1968
- RAMON JURADOPrivate First Class · February 21, 1968
Same unit, same day
- PAUL DELL HERSCHBACHSpecialist Four · Panel 40E, Line 52
- LUCIEN ROBINSONPrivate First Class · Panel 40E, Line 55
From Deerfield Beach
- DAVID WILLIAM GASKINLance Corporal · June 16, 1968
- WALTER LEE BECKWITH JRSpecialist Four · March 6, 1970
- MICHAEL HARRY CORWINSergeant · May 17, 1970
- JOSEPH PATRICK LUTZSpecialist Four · June 20, 1970
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.