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A Navy corpsman treats a wounded Marine of H Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, in Huế, February 1968.
A Navy corpsman treats a wounded Marine of H Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, in Huế, February 1968. Photo: Sgt. William F. Dickman, USMC, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Teddy Myrle Hart.

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TEDDY MYRLE HART

Hospitalman · U.S. Navy

October 12, 1947 – June 26, 1967

Service record

Teddy Myrle Hart, of Greenwell Springs, Louisiana, served as a Hospitalman in the U.S. Navy. He died on June 26, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 22E, Line 66 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 22E · Line 66

Position of Panel 22E 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. Navy
Rank
Hospitalman (HN)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Hospital Corpsman (HM)
Born
October 12, 1947
Home of record
Greenwell Springs, Louisiana

Casualty

Date of death
June 26, 1967
Age
19
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

14 names on the Wall carry the date June 26, 1967; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 22E, Line 66

From Greenwell Springs

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.