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RANDY LEE HANSEN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 23, 1948 – April 6, 1969
Service recordRandy Lee Hansen, of Williston, North Dakota, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 6, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 24
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Light Wheel Vehicle Mechanic (63B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 SIGNAL BDE
- Born
- October 23, 1948
- Home of record
- Williston, North Dakota (Williams County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 6, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date April 6, 1969; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 SIGNAL BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27W, Line 24
- OLLIE JAMES DANIELPrivate First Class · April 6, 1969
- THOMAS STEVEN DELUCA JRSpecialist Four · April 6, 1969
- ANGELO FIGUEROAPrivate First Class · April 6, 1969
- TERRY LEE GLASSCOCKPrivate First Class · April 6, 1969
From Williston
- RICHARD DENZIL GILL JRSpecialist Four · July 21, 1966
- KENYON ELROY BEANPrivate First Class · May 19, 1967
- RICHARD DALE HOVLANDSpecialist Four · January 31, 1968
- ROBERT JOHN HIMLERCaptain · August 24, 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.