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KENNETH MARVIN HATCHER
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
May 14, 1951 – April 19, 1971
Service recordKenneth Marvin Hatcher, of Warrenville, South Carolina, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on April 19, 1971, in Long Khanh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 134 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 134
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Steelworker (SW)
- Unit (as recorded)
- NMCB 3 3 NC BDE
- Born
- May 14, 1951
- Home of record
- Warrenville, South Carolina (Aiken County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 19, 1971
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Long Khanh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
Seven names on the Wall carry the date April 19, 1971; he was the only one lost in Long Khanh Province that day. In April 1971, 292 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 4W, Line 134
- PAUL ORBEN APPLEGATESergeant First Class · April 19, 1971
- LAWRENCE ERWIN CRAWLEYPrivate First Class · April 19, 1971
- JOHN STEVEN GENTKOWSKIPrivate First Class · April 19, 1971
- BRUCE DENNIS OLSONLance Corporal · April 19, 1971
From Warrenville
- ROY JULIAN WEATHERFORD JRLance Corporal · December 11, 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.