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JOSEPH ROBERT HUDSON JR
Sergeant · U.S. Army
July 14, 1945 – December 20, 1968
Service recordJoseph Robert Hudson JR, of Norristown, Pennsylvania, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 20, 1968, in Ninh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 51
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- General Supply Specialist (76K)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- July 14, 1945
- Home of record
- Norristown, Pennsylvania (Montgomery County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 20, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Ninh Thuan
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date December 20, 1968; three of them were lost in Ninh Thuan Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 51
- WILBUR O HAKEPrivate First Class · December 20, 1968
- RAY WESLEY HESTERLEELance Corporal · December 20, 1968
- RONALD ALAN JARVISPrivate First Class · December 20, 1968
- CARL FREDERICK KASHIEMERSpecialist Four · December 20, 1968
Same unit, same day
- FLOYD NEWTON MARTINSergeant First Class · Panel 36W, Line 52
- DALE HAROLD RANTHUMStaff Sergeant · Panel 36W, Line 53
From Norristown
- ROBERT FRANCIS RONCAMajor · February 19, 1965
- WILLIAM RICHARD REESE JRPrivate First Class · June 25, 1966
- NICHOLAS JOSEPH FULMERSpecialist Four · November 12, 1966
- MICHAEL ALEXANDER BARONOWSKILance Corporal · November 29, 1966
- NILS ARDEN DRENNENPrivate First Class · March 12, 1967
- JOHN ELLWOOD SCHEETZPrivate First Class · May 17, 1967
- DANIEL WILLIAM BRADYLance Corporal · July 2, 1967
- WILLIE LEE JONES JRSpecialist Four · September 5, 1967
- DAVID BRAUCH LEFEVERCorporal · September 6, 1967
- JIMMIE LUE MCMORRISPrivate First Class · November 15, 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.