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JOSEPH LAMAR HYATT
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 26, 1948 – November 13, 1967
Service recordJoseph Lamar Hyatt, of Fayetteville, Georgia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 13, 1967, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 90 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29E · Line 90
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)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- June 26, 1948
- Home of record
- Fayetteville, Georgia (Fayette County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 13, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date November 13, 1967; he was the only one lost in Pleiku Province that day. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 142 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 29E, Line 90
- MILFORD JONESPrivate First Class · November 13, 1967
- RAY MORGAN KEITH JONESSpecialist Four · November 13, 1967
- LAWRENCE ALLEN LETTERMANPrivate First Class · November 13, 1967
- FRANCIS LEROY MAPLESSpecialist Four · November 13, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JOHN LOUIS BARNHARTPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 87
- GLENN R EISENHOURSecond Lieutenant · Panel 29E, Line 88
- RAYMOND GARTHStaff Sergeant · Panel 29E, Line 89
- LAWRENCE ALLEN LETTERMANPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 90
- DENNIS EUGENE WARNEPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 93
From Fayetteville
- TOM EDWIN BORENPrivate First Class · June 10, 1966
- OTIS RAYMOND SIMPSONSpecialist Five · November 4, 1968
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.