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WILLIAM ROBERT HASSELL
Corporal · U.S. Army
May 18, 1949 – December 18, 1969
Service recordWilliam Robert Hassell, of Maysville, North Carolina, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on December 18, 1969, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 70 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15W · Line 70
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- May 18, 1949
- Home of record
- Maysville, North Carolina (Jones County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 18, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Phuoc Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
Nine names on the Wall carry the date December 18, 1969; he was the only one lost in Phuoc Long Province that day. In December 1969, 509 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 48 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 15W, Line 70
- ROGER JOHN FLYNNPrivate First Class · December 18, 1969
- JERRY DON GIESECKECorporal · December 18, 1969
- ROBERT CHARLES HOUSMANSpecialist Four · December 18, 1969
- CHARLES DAVID NEWMANPrivate First Class · December 18, 1969
Same unit, same day
- RONALD JOHN BINKOWSKISpecialist Four · Panel 15W, Line 69
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.