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KYLE HENRY HATCHETT
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 3, 1945 – August 23, 1965
Service recordKyle Henry Hatchett, of New York, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 23, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 65 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2E · Line 65
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- August 3, 1945
- Home of record
- New York, New York (Kings County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 23, 1965
- Age
- 20
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
Five names on the Wall carry the date August 23, 1965. In August 1965, 179 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 2E, Line 65
- ANTONIO DUARTE PADILLACorporal · August 21, 1965
- FELIZ PERRISLance Corporal · August 21, 1965
- DEPUY RAYMOND VANKEURENLance Corporal · August 22, 1965
- RICHARD EDWARD CRONKPrivate First Class · August 23, 1965
From New York
- WALTER R MCCARTHY JRCaptain · June 16, 1962
- JOHN HOWARD MCCLEANCaptain · August 16, 1963
- DONALD ALLAN MOLLICONEFirst Lieutenant · December 20, 1963
- VINCENT JOSEPH HICKMANCaptain · January 14, 1964
- MARTIN STOCKFEDERPrivate First Class · July 15, 1964
- ROBERT GEORGE ARMSTRONGFirst Lieutenant · October 24, 1964
- DOMINICK SANSONESergeant First Class · December 10, 1964
- DONALD GILBERT COOKColonel · December 31, 1964
- TERENCE MEREDITH MURPHYLieutenant (junior grade) · April 9, 1965
- ROBERT CARL WISTRANDColonel · May 9, 1965
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.