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JOSEPH ROBERT HAGY JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 26, 1946 – October 24, 1969
Service recordJoseph Robert Hagy JR, of Lebanon, Kentucky, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 24, 1969, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 112 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17W · Line 112
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- December 26, 1946
- Home of record
- Lebanon, Kentucky (Marion County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 24, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date October 24, 1969; he was the only one lost in Pleiku Province that day. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 46 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 17W, Line 112
- RODNEY RAY COLLINSPrivate First Class · October 24, 1969
- JOHN THOMAS DEMARCHESSergeant First Class · October 24, 1969
- RALPH WILLIAM JOHNSONSergeant · October 24, 1969
- HENRY RAYMOND LAMBERTStaff Sergeant · October 24, 1969
Same unit, same day
- RODNEY RAY COLLINSPrivate First Class · Panel 17W, Line 112
- MAX WELKER PUGMIRESpecialist Four · Panel 17W, Line 113
- ALBERT ORLANDO WAYMAN JRPrivate First Class · Panel 17W, Line 115
From Lebanon
- GEORGE R PENDYGRAFTPrivate First Class · June 8, 1966
- HENRY RAY WICKERLance Corporal · May 8, 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.