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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Kimmey Dean Hobbs.

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KIMMEY DEAN HOBBS

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

June 7, 1947 – April 10, 1968

Service record

Kimmey Dean Hobbs, of San Antonio, Texas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 10, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 49E, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 49E · Line 11

Position of Panel 49E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Medical Specialist (91B)
Unit (as recorded)
AMERICAL DIV
Born
June 7, 1947
Home of record
San Antonio, Texas (Bexar County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 10, 1968
Age
20
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

53 names on the Wall carry the date April 10, 1968; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 22 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 49E, Line 11

Same unit, same day

From San Antonio

All 287 names from San Antonio →

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.