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SAMMY LOWELL HARTZELL
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
September 17, 1943 – March 11, 1966
Service recordSammy Lowell Hartzell, of Arlington Heights, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 11, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6E · Line 1
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 3 BN 9 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- September 17, 1943
- Home of record
- Arlington Heights, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 11, 1966
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
Four names on the Wall carry the date March 11, 1966; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In March 1966, 564 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “3 BN 9 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 6E, Line 1
- AUGUSTO MARIA XAVIERFirst Lieutenant · March 10, 1966
- JOHN R COWANSpecialist Four · March 11, 1966
- HARVEY LEROY ENGELPetty Officer First Class · March 11, 1966
- JAMES PIERPONT MORGANSergeant · March 11, 1966
From Arlington Heights
- ROBERT ERLE BARDACHPetty Officer Second Class · October 14, 1967
- DANIEL RICHARD SCHUERENCaptain · February 25, 1968
- HARRY LEE CRAIGLance Corporal · May 18, 1968
- DOUGLAS DEAN VAUGHANLieutenant (junior grade) · May 20, 1969
- WILLIAM CARL DABBERTPrivate First Class · June 28, 1969
- MICHAEL R BLANCHFIELDSpecialist Four · July 3, 1969
- DONALD ALAN CLARBOURSpecialist Four · November 6, 1969
- SCOTT NELSON JACOBSONPrivate · February 27, 1972
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.