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LESLIE TOBIAS HAMMACK
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
December 26, 1946 – November 20, 1969
Service recordLeslie Tobias Hammack, of Mooresville, Indiana, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 20, 1969, in Darlac Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 16W, Line 99 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16W · Line 99
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- December 26, 1946
- Home of record
- Mooresville, Indiana (Morgan County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 20, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Darlac
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
34 names on the Wall carry the date November 20, 1969; he was the only one lost in Darlac Province that day. In November 1969, 660 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 54 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 16W, Line 99
- ALAN EVERETT DICKEYSergeant · November 20, 1969
- WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNCANPrivate First Class · November 20, 1969
- FRED ANTONY EXNER IIIWarrant Officer 1 · November 20, 1969
- LEROY LARKIN HOWLANDSpecialist Four · November 20, 1969
Same unit, same day
- PABLO BENITEZ GARZASergeant First Class · Panel 16W, Line 98
- CHARLES EDWARD MOAKE JRSergeant · Panel 16W, Line 101
- ROGER STEVEN POWERSSergeant · Panel 16W, Line 102
From Mooresville
- HAROLD DUANE COLLINSCorporal · September 2, 1968
- RONALD LEE HOVISPrivate First Class · December 18, 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.