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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Theodore Crossman Hall.

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THEODORE CROSSMAN HALL

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

July 9, 1920 – March 6, 1969

Service record

Theodore Crossman Hall, of Louisville, Kentucky, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 6, 1969, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 48. His name is inscribed on Panel 30W, Line 55 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 30W · Line 55

Position of Panel 30W 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
Sergeant First Class (SFC)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
July 9, 1920
Home of record
Louisville, Kentucky (Jefferson County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 6, 1969
Age
48
Province
Gia Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Drowning

Context · from the records

What was happening

54 names on the Wall carry the date March 6, 1969; two of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 30W, Line 55

From Louisville

All 178 names 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.