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RONALD ALVIN HOFF
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 3, 1948 – July 16, 1969
Service recordRonald Alvin Hoff, of Lawrenceburg, Indiana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 16, 1969, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · Line 6
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
- Medium Helicopter Repairer (67U)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 AVN CO 268 AVN BN 17 AVN GRP
- Born
- April 3, 1948
- Home of record
- Lawrenceburg, Indiana (Dearborn County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 16, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date July 16, 1969; seven of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “196 AVN CO 268 AVN BN 17 AVN GRP”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20W, Line 6
- JAMES VERNON DAWSONCaptain · July 16, 1969
- ROBERT GLENN EASTONPetty Officer Second Class · July 16, 1969
- JAMES MARTIN FLEMINGPrivate First Class · July 16, 1969
- KENNETH MAX WILLISChief Warrant Officer 2 · July 16, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ARTHUR RICHARD ALLISONSpecialist Four · Panel 20W, Line 4
- DARRELL VON HURTSpecialist Four · Panel 20W, Line 7
- JOHNNY LEE KIDDSpecialist Four · Panel 20W, Line 7
From Lawrenceburg
- LARY DALE FOGLEPrivate First Class · December 20, 1965
- THOMAS GEORGE DENNINGLance Corporal · March 2, 1967
- ROBERT JOE WILLIAMSONSergeant · January 31, 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.