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WAYNE HENRY HOFFNER
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
October 1, 1934 – April 26, 1968
Service recordWayne Henry Hoffner, of Clarence, Iowa, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 26, 1968, in Kien Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 52E, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 52E · Line 19
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- October 1, 1934
- Home of record
- Clarence, Iowa (Cedar County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 26, 1968
- Age
- 33
- Province
- Kien Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
69 names on the Wall carry the date April 26, 1968; he was the only one lost in Kien Tuong Province that day. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 52E, Line 19
- CAREY DEAN HARMONSpecialist Four · April 26, 1968
- STEVEN CLINTON HEFFNERSpecialist Four · April 26, 1968
- DANNY EDWARD HEREAUSergeant · April 26, 1968
- ROY DARRELL HUMPHREYSpecialist Five · April 26, 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.