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VANESTER LAMAR HESTER
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
May 20, 1945 – November 13, 1967
Service recordVanester Lamar Hester, of Ft Pierce, Florida, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on November 13, 1967, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 89 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29E · Line 89
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- May 20, 1945
- Home of record
- Ft Pierce, Florida (St Lucie County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 13, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date November 13, 1967; 25 of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 212 of its members that month.
He died in Kon Tum Province while the Battle of Đắk Tô was under way. Around Đắk Tô in the Central Highlands (3–23 November 1967), the 4th Infantry Division and the 173rd Airborne Brigade fought North Vietnamese regiments for the hills along the border, ending with the assault on Hill 875 on Thanksgiving Day. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 29E, Line 89
- RAYMOND GARTHStaff Sergeant · November 13, 1967
- LAFRANCIS HARDIMANPrivate First Class · November 13, 1967
- ALPHONSO LEE HARMONPrivate First Class · November 13, 1967
- ZAN HESSSpecialist Four · November 13, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JAMES CRAIG BERRYPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 87
- DAVID ELVIN BUNKERSpecialist Four · Panel 29E, Line 87
- NATHANIEL CHATMANPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 87
- HORACE W COWDRICK JRPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 88
- GREGORY LYNN DUNNPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 88
- LAMONT GEORGE EPPSPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 88
- ROBERT SAMUEL FERRULLAPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 88
- LAFRANCIS HARDIMANPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 89
- ZAN HESSSpecialist Four · Panel 29E, Line 89
- MILFORD JONESPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 90
- RAY MORGAN KEITH JONESSpecialist Four · Panel 29E, Line 90
- FRANCIS LEROY MAPLESSpecialist Four · Panel 29E, Line 90
- WILLIAM OTHELLO MCKOYPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 91
- VERNON MEANSSergeant · Panel 29E, Line 91
- WAYNE PAUL MURRAYPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 91
- RICHARD VAUGHN MYERSSpecialist Four · Panel 29E, Line 91
- JAMES E RAFFENSPERGER JRSpecialist Four · Panel 29E, Line 91
- ROBERT LEE ROSSPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 92
- LEROY ALPHUS ROSTPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 92
- RICHARD ALAN SCHEIBERSpecialist Four · Panel 29E, Line 92
- EDWARD ANTHONY SCULLYSpecialist Four · Panel 29E, Line 92
- WILLIE JAMES SIMMONSSergeant · Panel 29E, Line 92
- VERNON PATRICK SPRINKLEPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 93
- LARRY KEITH WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 93
From Ft Pierce
- ERNEST PRESIDENTSpecialist Four · October 10, 1965
- JOSEPH BRADSHAW BAGGETTMajor · December 16, 1965
- CLAUDDELL GANDYPrivate First Class · May 11, 1966
- ARTHUR WILLIE GREENEPrivate · January 20, 1967
- CARL ROGERS STOVALLPrivate First Class · May 23, 1967
- HERSHEL HILLARY ROHN JRMajor · August 6, 1967
- ROBERT LEE CULBERTH JRCorporal · November 30, 1967
- RICHARD WAYNE SHIVERPrivate · January 10, 1968
- GLOUSTER RHYNESPrivate First Class · May 24, 1968
- JIMMY HERMAN SMITHLance Corporal · June 10, 1968
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.