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UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967.
UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967. Photo: PFC Franklin G. Nickerson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Samuel L Hunt.

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SAMUEL L HUNT

Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army

October 27, 1944 – October 26, 1967

Service record

Samuel L Hunt, of Louisville, Mississippi, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on October 26, 1967, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 74 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 28E · Line 74

Position of Panel 28E 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
Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Helicopter Pilot, Utility And Light Cargo Single Rotor (062B)
Unit (as recorded)
114 AVN CO 13 AVN BN DEL PROV GRP 1 AVN BDE
Born
October 27, 1944
Home of record
Louisville, Mississippi (Winston County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 26, 1967
Age
22
Province
Dinh Tuong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

32 names on the Wall carry the date October 26, 1967; four of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “114 AVN CO 13 AVN BN DEL PROV GRP 1 AVN BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 28E, Line 74

Same unit, same day

From Louisville

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.