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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Allen Hannaman.

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ROBERT ALLEN HANNAMAN

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

October 22, 1947 – August 17, 1968

Service record

Robert Allen Hannaman, of Stockport, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 17, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 48W, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 48W · Line 32

Position of Panel 48W 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)
199 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
October 22, 1947
Home of record
Stockport, Ohio (Morgan County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 17, 1968
Age
20
Province
Gia Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

23 names on the Wall carry the date August 17, 1968; four of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 48W, Line 32

Same unit, same day

From Stockport

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.