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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Alan Hanselman.

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ROBERT ALAN HANSELMAN

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

May 15, 1948 – December 22, 1967

Service record

Robert Alan Hanselman, of Mt Clemens, Michigan, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 22, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 44 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 32E · Line 44

Position of Panel 32E 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
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
May 15, 1948
Home of record
Mt Clemens, Michigan (Macomb County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 22, 1967
Age
19
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

37 names on the Wall carry the date December 22, 1967; 17 of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 106 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 32E, Line 44

Same unit, same day

From Mt Clemens

All 23 names from Mt Clemens →

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.