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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Lewis Steven Hall.

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LEWIS STEVEN HALL

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

July 18, 1948 – January 10, 1971

Service record

Lewis Steven Hall, of Saratoga, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 10, 1971, in Long Khanh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 5W, Line 37 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 5W · Line 37

Position of Panel 5W 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
Field Artillery Basic (13A)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
July 18, 1948
Home of record
Saratoga, California (Santa Clara County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 10, 1971
Age
22
Province
Long Khanh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

11 names on the Wall carry the date January 10, 1971; he was the only one lost in Long Khanh Province that day. In January 1971, 259 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 5W, Line 37

Same unit, same day

From Saratoga

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.