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WALTER DEWAYNE HOGAN
Corporal · U.S. Army
February 18, 1941 – November 17, 1967
Service recordWalter Dewayne Hogan, of Mason, Nevada, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on November 17, 1967, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30E · Line 9
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- February 18, 1941
- Home of record
- Mason, Nevada (Lyon County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 17, 1967
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Phuoc Tuy
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date November 17, 1967; he was the only one lost in Phuoc Tuy Province that day. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 50 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 30E, Line 9
- MICHAEL EDWARD FLANNERYSpecialist Four · November 17, 1967
- KARL DIETER HEZELMajor · November 17, 1967
- THEODORE W JOHNSONFirst Lieutenant · November 17, 1967
- LEROY JOHN OLIVER KLINGPrivate First Class · November 17, 1967
Same unit, same day
- TERRY MICHAEL ENRIQUEZPrivate First Class · Panel 30E, Line 8
From Mason
- ROGER ALLEN STEELEPrivate First Class · November 11, 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.