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TERENCE HIGGINS HANLEY
Lieutenant · U.S. Navy
March 16, 1942 – January 1, 1968
Service recordTerence Higgins Hanley, of Gardiner, Maine, served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He was lost on January 1, 1968, in North Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 33E, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33E · Line 11
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
- Lieutenant (LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1325)
- Unit (as recorded)
- VAP 61
- Born
- March 16, 1942
- Home of record
- Gardiner, Maine (Kennebec County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- January 1, 1968
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date January 1, 1968. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “VAP 61”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 33E, Line 11
- GREGORY EDMUND WERNERSergeant · December 31, 1967
- NORMAN RALPH ANDERSONSergeant · January 1, 1968
- RAYMOND DEAN BRETCHESFirst Lieutenant · January 1, 1968
- ALVIA GRADY BRYANTCorporal · January 1, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES RICHARD DENNISONCommander · Panel 33E, Line 12
- HENRY HOWARD HERRIN JRSenior Chief Petty Officer · Panel 33E, Line 13
From Gardiner
- HAROLD W REYNOLDSStaff Sergeant · January 22, 1967
- GERALD ANDREW DORRWarrant Officer 1 · January 28, 1967
- GUY ROBERT BEANPrivate First Class · February 23, 1968
- JON BAILEYSpecialist Four · February 24, 1969
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.