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LONNIE ELWOOD HOOPAUGH
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
July 11, 1947 – February 11, 1969
Service recordLonnie Elwood Hoopaugh, of Candor, North Carolina, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on February 11, 1969, in Vinh Binh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 32W, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32W · Line 13
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 Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Engineman (EN)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- July 11, 1947
- Home of record
- Candor, North Carolina (Montgomery County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 11, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Vinh Binh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date February 11, 1969; three of them were lost in Vinh Binh Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 32W, Line 13
- EDWARD MONROE HOLTZMANSpecialist Four · February 11, 1969
- JAMES EUGENE KIRBYWarrant Officer 1 · February 11, 1969
- HAROLD WILLIAM KROSKE JRMajor · February 11, 1969
- ROBERT BRUCE MADDOXFirst Lieutenant · February 11, 1969
Same unit, same day
- LARRY JOE LUCKETTSeaman · Panel 32W, Line 14
From Candor
- ROY LEE JACKSONPrivate First Class · January 30, 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.