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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Ronald David Hart.

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RONALD DAVID HART

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

January 11, 1947 – February 17, 1967

Service record

Ronald David Hart, of Everett, Washington, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 17, 1967, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 15E · Line 54

Position of Panel 15E 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
Regular
Occupation
Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
January 11, 1947
Home of record
Everett, Washington (Snohomish County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 17, 1967
Age
20
Province
Kontum
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

Ten names on the Wall carry the date February 17, 1967; four of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 107 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 15E, Line 54

Same unit, same day

From Everett

All 30 names from Everett →

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.