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PETER RAYMOND HANSEN JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 19, 1946 – February 6, 1968
Service recordPeter Raymond Hansen JR, of Ortonville, Minnesota, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 6, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 37E, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37E · Line 57
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- July 19, 1946
- Home of record
- Ortonville, Minnesota (Big Stone County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 6, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
147 names on the Wall carry the date February 6, 1968; three of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 140 of its members that month.
He died in Pleiku Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 37E, Line 57
- JOE WILLIAM GREENEPrivate First Class · February 6, 1968
- WAYNE STEVENSON GREERLance Corporal · February 6, 1968
- DOUGLAS HOLTZ GRIFFINLance Corporal · February 6, 1968
- ALLEN HIDEO HARANOPrivate First Class · February 6, 1968
Same unit, same day
- MELVIN JOHN BYERSPrivate First Class · Panel 37E, Line 49
- ALBERT RANDOLPH FOGG IIISpecialist Four · Panel 37E, Line 55
- ALLEN HIDEO HARANOPrivate First Class · Panel 37E, Line 57
- DUANE EDWARD LITZINGERStaff Sergeant · Panel 37E, Line 60
- MICHAEL MULLERVYPrivate First Class · Panel 37E, Line 63
- DENNIS DEAN NEHRINGPrivate First Class · Panel 37E, Line 64
- RICHARD CONAWAY OBRIENSpecialist Four · Panel 37E, Line 65
- AURELIO R RAMON JRSergeant · Panel 37E, Line 67
- TERRENCE EDWARD STAUDOHARSergeant · Panel 37E, Line 70
- JOSE ANTONIO TRAVIESOPrivate First Class · Panel 37E, Line 72
- JAMES LEROY WISE JRSpecialist Four · Panel 37E, Line 74
- RAYFIELD WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · Panel 37E, Line 75
From Ortonville
- GERALD GEORGE FREDRICKSONAirman · July 29, 1967
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.