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WILLIAM CLAYTON HACKETT
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
January 21, 1941 – June 27, 1969
Service recordWilliam Clayton Hackett, of Lewistown, Pennsylvania, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 27, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21W · Line 21
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Cannoneer (0811)
- Born
- January 21, 1941
- Home of record
- Lewistown, Pennsylvania (Mifflin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 27, 1969
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date June 27, 1969; six of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 21W, Line 21
- LARRY WAYNE WILLISSergeant · June 26, 1969
- ROBERT KEITH WITTMANPrivate First Class · June 26, 1969
- RONALD RALPH BEAMANCaptain · June 27, 1969
- HAMMETT LEE BOWEN JRStaff Sergeant · June 27, 1969
From Lewistown
- HAROLD ELMER BURKETTPetty Officer Third Class · January 31, 1966
- SIDNEY GEORGE KREISHERPrivate First Class · April 4, 1967
- GUY WESLEY CLINGER JRSpecialist Four · June 17, 1967
- RUSSELL EDWARD KEPHARTSergeant · February 4, 1968
- RONALD RAY WALLSStaff Sergeant · September 26, 1968
- WILLIAM FRANK ROCCOSergeant First Class · April 23, 1969
- JOHN HOWARD GUTHRIDGECaptain · August 29, 1969
- ROBERT HENRY ROYERSpecialist Four · May 3, 1971
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.